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WHERE THE ROOTS REACH FOR WATER: A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia - Brossura

Smith, Jeffery

 
9780865475922: WHERE THE ROOTS REACH FOR WATER: A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia
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ISBN 10: 086547592X ISBN 13: 9780865475922
Casa editrice: North Point Press, 2001

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Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir

Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when his own clinical depression began. Eventually, all his prescribed antidepressant medications proved ineffective. Unlike so many personal accounts, Where the Roots Reach for Water tells the story of what happened to Smith after he decided to give them up. Trying to learn how to make a life with his illness, Smith sets out to get at the essence of--using the old term for depression--melancholia.

Deftly woven into his "personal history" is a "natural history" of this ancient illness. Drawing on centuries of art, writing and medical treatises, Smith finds ancient links between melancholia and spirituality, love and sex, music and philosophy, gardening, and, importantly, our relationship with landscapes.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jeffery Smith was born in West Virginia and was raised just across the the Ohio River in the Allegheny foothills. He now lives with his wife, Lisa Werner, in Coshocton County, Ohio, where he is working on a book about the traditional music of the Appalachians.

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Editore
North Point Press
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
086547592X
ISBN 13 
9780865475922
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
308
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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