The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
Mary Cregan
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Beschreibung
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 dies—plunging 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 ordeal—and the still-visible scar of her suicide attempt—while also considering her life as part of the larger history of our understanding of depression.
Kundenbewertungen
motherhood, psychotherapy, mental illness, shock treatment, antidepressants, irish, treatment, attempted suicide, tricyclic, loss of a child, medication, ssri, stillbirth, suicidal depression, melancholia, electroconvulsive therapy, trauma, neonatal death, memoir, ect