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Andrew Solomon

The Secret Sadness of Depression

Tue, Feb 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm CST - 7:30 pm CST

| Free

Andrew Solomon on WGN television morning show on February 11, 2020 HERE

Video: Facing Down the Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon describes the experience of facing down depression. Recorded at The Tabernacle, London, February 29, 2016 HERE.

Andrew Solomon’s web site HERE

Depression manifests itself in great numbers, has a unique impact on each person it affects, and knows no social boundaries

Award winning writer and lecturer Dr. Andrew Solomon examines depression in both personal and scientific of terms. Drawing on his own longtime struggle with depression and interviews with fellow sufferers and doctors , Solomon reveals the subtleties, the complexities, and the agony of this disease.

Solomon will discuss updated information on various treatment approaches to depression, while detailing his own trials with them. Join us for an enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, told with the utmost empathy for the sufferers and those who love them. Solomon’s experience of facing down depression will change your view of the world and is a highlight of this year’s GPS programming.

Solomon’s memoir, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a worldwide bestseller, published in more than twenty languages. He is also the acclaimed author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity, an examination of the means by which families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and how these unusual situations can be invested with love. A regular contributor to NPR, The New York Times and many other publications, Dr. Solomon is the founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University.

This free event is open to the public.    Continuing professional development units are available.

This event is co-sponsored by Northwestern Medicine

Book Discussion of The Noonday Demon

Read Solomon’s book, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” and join us at the Glen Ellyn Publc Library for a discussion on Tuesday, Feb. 4 from 7-8 pm with Glenbard Parent Series Coordinator Gilda Ross.

 

Flyer for this event with Andrew Solomon (PDF) HERE

 

Details

Date:
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Time:
6:00 pm CST - 7:30 pm CST
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Gilda Ross

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Speaker
Andrew Solomon

Venue

Glenbard West
670 Crescent Blvd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 United States
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