{"product_id":"9781784702670","title":"The Noonday Demon","description":"Author: Solomon, Andrew\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784702670\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 688 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most affecting, intelligent, important and constructive book on depression there has ever been - a key text by a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer who has not only experienced the depths of depression but has researched every aspect of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Primo Levi's \u003ci\u003eThe Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon \u003c\/i\u003edigs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSolomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical, social, biological, chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease. He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened and afflicted poor, rural and urban. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most significantly, he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**ONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e'S\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48165331140766,"sku":"UBD-9781784702670","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781784702670.jpg?v=1787134562","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781784702670","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}