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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- Sophocles
(495 BC - 406 BC)
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Writers on Depression
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ZIN Product Number: 10003586
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060007826
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since Girl, Interrupted, criticizes herself and others for making too much of the illness. Larry McMurtry recounts the despair that descended after his quadruple bypass surgery. Meri Danquah describes the challenges of racism and depression. Ann Beattie sees melancholy as a consequence of her writing life. And Donald Hall lovingly remembers the "moody seesaw" of his relationship with his wife, Jane Kenyon.
The collection also includes an illuminating series of companion pieces. Russell Banks's and Chase Twichell's essays represent husbandand-wife perspectives on depression; Rose Styron's contribution about her husband's struggle with melancholy is paired with an excerpt from William Styron's Darkness Visible; and the book's editor, Nell Casey, juxtaposes her own essay about seeing her sister through her depression with Maud Casey's account of this experience. These companion pieces portray the complicated bond — a constant grasp for mutual understandingforged by depressives and their family members.
With an introduction by Kay Redfield Jamison, Unholy Ghost allows the bewildering experience of depression to beadequately and beautifully rendered. The twenty-two stories that make up this book will offer solace and enlightenment to all readers.
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POWERFULLY RENDERED WORK
-- A reviewer, TV Development Executive from NYC, April 3, 2001
Suprisingly Realistic
-- Addie, a depression sufferer, July 11, 2002
Also Recommended: Darkness Visible by William Styron, Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, Cut by Patricia McCormick.
| |  | | | | Epigraph | xi | | Acknowledgments | xiii | | Introduction | 1 | | A Delicious Placebo | 8 | | Toys in the Attic: An Ars Poetica Under the Influence | 21 | | Bodies in the Basement: An Ars Poetica with Attitude | 29 | | One Cheer for Melancholy | 38 | | Heaven and Nature | 44 | | Poodle Bed | 60 | | From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen | 67 | | Noontime | 75 | | Fading to Gray | 105 | | from Darkness Visible | 114 | | Strands | 126 | | An Unwelcome Career | 138 | | Melancholy and the Muse | 149 | | Ghost in the House | 162 | | Writing the Wrongs of Identity | 173 | | On Living Behind Bars | 181 | | from The Savage God | 214 | | Planet No | 229 | | A Melancholy of Mine Own | 242 | | The Legacy | 256 | | Wish You Were Here | 270 | | A Better Place to Live | 281 | | Contributors | 294 |
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Psychology, Self-Help, Depression, Essays, Literary Collections, Mental Health, Depression, Mental, Mental health, Writers
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