Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It received the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. It was described as exploring the many nuances of depression from medical, scientific, and social perspectives, delving into historical attitudes and religious ideas that have shaped modern attitudes.
I think what I found really refreshing about your book and something that I don't think is out there enough is, you know, what depression really is and what it really is not. It's not sadness, really.
— Episode: The Soul in Depression
Episode: The Soul in Depression
It received the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. It was described as exploring the many nuances of depression from medical, scientific, and social perspectives, delving into historical attitudes and religious ideas that have shaped modern attitudes.
I think what I found really refreshing about your book and something that I don't think is out there enough is, you know, what depression really is and what it really is not. It's not sadness, really.
And it teaches you how big emotion is. The profundity of the inner self, I suppose, would be the best way of putting it.
If humanity is of nature, then so are our inventions. Yes, exactly. And it ends that passage with the line, that art itself is nature.
I think the idea that there is a real self and that changing it in any way with medication is artificial is like the idea that you really have teeth that fall out when you're 30 and that you're artificially changing them by using modern dental care.
depression is the flaw in love
Episode: [Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett
It was described as containing gory details of the author's breakdowns, but also explored the spiritual aspects of depression, such as the discovery of one's soul during and after depression. The book was praised for its refreshing perspective on what depression really is and is not.
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
If humanity is of nature, then so are our inventions.
we try a new drug, a new combination of drugs and suddenly I fall into my life again.
depression is the flaw in love