WHERE THE ROOTS REACH FOR WATER - Couverture souple

Smith, Jeffery

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 086547592X ISBN 13 : 9780865475922

Editeur : North Point Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeffery Smith was born in West Virginia. He lives with his wife, Lisa Werner, in the Appalachian foothills of Coshocton County, Ohio. Where the Roots Reach for Water is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: North Point Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 086547592X
• ISBN 13: 9780865475922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible