A Cure for Darkness by Alex Riley

A fascinating look at the treatment of depression, blending journalism, science, history, and memoir, by an award-winning science writer.
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.

Since 2015, Riley has received both cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants for his own depression. Throughout his treatment, he wondered-are antidepressants effective? Do short-term talking therapies actually work? And what treatments are on the horizon for those who don't respond to these first-line treatments? Expanding from his own experience, he tracks treatments through history, from the "talking cure" to...

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