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A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it / Alex Riley.
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In 'A Cure for Darkness', science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
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- ISBN: 9781501198779 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Riley, Alex > Mental health. Depression, Mental. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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Weaving in personal and family history, an award-winning science writer, reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day, presents a fascinating look at the treatment of depression. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Weaving in personal and family history, an award-winning science writer, reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day, presents a fascinating look at the treatment of depression. - Simon and Schuster
A fascinating look at the treatment of depression, blending journalism, science, history, and memoir, by an award-winning science writer.
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
Since 2015, Riley has received both cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants for his own depression. Throughout his treatment, he wondered'are antidepressants effective? Do short-term talking therapies actually work? And what treatments are on the horizon for those who don't respond to these first-line treatments? Expanding from his own experience, he tracks treatments through history, from the 'talking cure' to electroconvulsive therapy to magic mushrooms. With depression fast becoming the leading burden of disease around the world, the future of mental healthcare depends not just on the development of new therapies, but on increasing access for people who are currently without. Reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day, Riley highlights a range of scalable therapies, including how a group of grandmothers stands on the frontline of a mental health revolution.
Weaving in personal and family history, A Cure for Darkness is a gripping narrative journey and a surprisingly hopeful work that delves deep into the science of mental health. - Simon and Schuster
A fascinating, ârich, and generousâ (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir.
Is depression a persistent low mood, or is it a range of symptoms? Can it be expressed through a single diagnosis, or does depression actually refer to a diversity of mental disorders? Is there, or will there ever be, a cure? In seeking the answers to these questions, Riley finds a rich history of ideas and treatmentsâand takes the reader on a gripping narrative journey, packed with fascinating stories like the junior doctor who discovered that some of the first antidepressants had a deadly reaction with cheese.
âInterweaving memoir, case histories, and accounts of new therapies, Riley anatomizes what is still a fairly young science, and a troubled oneâ (The New Yorker). Reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day, Riley highlights a range of scalable therapies, including how a group of grandmothers stands on the frontline of a mental health revolution.
Hopeful, fascinating, and profound, A Cure for Darkness is ârecommended reading for anyone with even a peripheral interest in depressionâ (Washington Examiner).
