Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)

from bibliobibuli

This is a very slim volume, just 84 pages long, which started life as a lecture given at a symposium sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. It...

from bogopea

Profoundly honest account of William Styron's life of depression, focusing on 1985, the year it became debilitating to him to the point where he almost killed himself. Styron is very literate on th...

from justicefortibet

Finally, a book on depression written by someone who actually KNOWS what it is to feel this way. Although I can't share Styron's optimistic, happy ending that most people can be cured of depression...

from kraaivrouw

This is my second read of this book and it's been a long time between. I read it in 1985 during the tail end of a long-term crash I survived and it was resonant, although painful - the latter is wh...

from BruderBane

As a fellow sufferer and ardent supporter of mental health issues, I found Mr. Styron's autobiographical essay on depression to be edifying. His use of such rich descriptive narrative and his prope...