WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR

Like Primo Levi's book "The Periodic Table," "Suicide at Magda" delves deeply into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, with exceptional and terrifying intensity, his painful experience with depression. Solomon also highlights the suffering of others in different cultures and societies, whose lives have been shattered by depression, revealing the historical, social, biological, chemical, and medical aspects of this affliction.

He takes us through the mental health asylums where some individuals have been imprisoned for decades, to the research laboratories, to the strained and wounded poor, both urban and rural. He speaks with faith healers and travels around the world seeking folk wisdom. He analyzes the medications of the present day, while examining the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most importantly, sheds light on the crucial role of willpower and love in the recovery process.

ONE OF THE 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE GUARDIAN

Pages: 688, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm