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Merkin, Daphne.
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Merkin, Daphne -- Mental health.
Postpartum depression -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
Psychotherapist and patient -- Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors -- United States -- Biography.
Women novelists -- United States -- Biography.
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Merkin, Daphne.
Merkin, Daphne -- Mental health.
Postpartum depression -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
Psychotherapist and patient -- Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors -- United States -- Biography.
Women novelists -- United States -- Biography.
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This close to happy : a reckoning with depression / Daphne Merkin.
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Merkin, Daphne.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
616
.8527
M563t
Subjects
Merkin, Daphne -- Mental health.
Postpartum depression -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
Psychotherapist and patient -- Biography.
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors -- United States -- Biography.
Women novelists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374140366 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
288 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Summary:
"A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression. The vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She recounts her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother. Merkin also discusses her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries, has a child, and suffers severe postpartum depression, for which she is again hospitalized. She discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. Daphne Merkin is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and a regular contributor to Elle. Her previous books include the novel Enchantmen and two collections of essays, Dreaming of Hitler and The Fame Lunches,
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Memoirs.
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