Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865475922ISBN-10:086547592XUPC:9780865475922Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Social Scientists & Psychologists, Mood DisordersBook Topic:DepressionSize:9.08 x 4.93 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC1F374W65
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.Languages:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865475922ISBN-10:086547592XUPC:9780865475922Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Social Scientists & Psychologists, Mood DisordersBook Topic:DepressionSize:9.08 x 4.93 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC1F374W65
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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