The Soul in Depression
On Being with Krista Tippett
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
Andrew solomon's award winning book, the noonday demon is at once a memoir and a compendium of the many new ces of depression described from medical, scientific and social perspectives. He also delves into historical attitudes, including religious ideas, which have formed modern attitudes in the west. Many ancient classical thinkers did not understand the psyche as detached from the body. The great fifth century church father saint augustine, labelled depression a disease, not of the body, but of the soul, and a mark of god's disfavor. This christian stigma has endured in modern america, even when the theology behind it has not.
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