Mary Cregan

The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A searingly honest and riveting (Colm Tóibín) memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of the illness.

At the age of twenty-seven, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's apparent that something is terribly wrong, and two days later, Anna diesplunging Cregan into suicidal despair. Decades later, sustained by her work, a second marriage, and a son, Cregan reflects on this pivotal experience and attempts to make sense of it. She weaves together literature and research with details from her own ordealand the still-visible scar of her suicide attemptwhile also considering her life as part of the larger history of our understanding of depression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324001737
• Artikelnr.: 59589202

Autorenporträt

Mary Cregan attended Middlebury College and received her PhD from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education and in the Financial Times. A lecturer in English literature at Barnard College, she lives in New York.