WHERE THE ROOTS REACH FOR WATER: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia - Softcover

Smith, Jeffery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086547592X ISBN 13: 9780865475922

Verlag: North Point Press, 2001

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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.

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Jeff Smith is the author of serval books, including The Rich Man and Lazarus: Plain Truth about Life after Death. He serves on the governing board of Reformed Baptist Seminary and is a pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Coconut, Florida, where he resides with his wife, Kelly, and their six children.

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• Verlag: North Point Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 086547592X
• ISBN 13: 9780865475922
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
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