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NOONDAY DEMON

內容簡介

內容簡介 Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease.He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations -- around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incom-parable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.

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各界推薦 平裝（571頁） 以自身病例解說憂鬱症之書不少，但能兼具感性及理性者則不多，榮獲二○○一年度美國國家書卷獎的本書，從多方角度探看憂鬱症，解析其由來、治療方式與政治文化意涵，實際走訪藥廠了解抗鬱藥物的研發與行銷，考察心理治療機構見證患者所接受的輔導，此外，作者己身與憂鬱症對抗的過程，由於摻雜著母親的死亡威脅與自我性傾向的困惑，走得格外艱辛，其心路歷程在另部小說作品Stone Boat有更深的筆觸。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Andrew Solomon studied at Yale University and Jesus College Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, ArtForum, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost and a novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. He is the winner of the 2001 National Book Award.

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