Articles by Andrew Solomon:

This border policy is not only unfair to visitors, but also constitutes an affront to the millions of Americans who are grappling with mental-health challenges.

The story coming out of D.C. is of a man at war with himself and with the world around him, and unfortunately that latter war carried the day.

Psychiatry is deeply flawed, but flawed does not mean worthless.

If charity begins at home, then so, too, does brutality.

If we want to stem violence, we need to begin by stemming despair.

My mother died twenty years ago this month—on June 19, 1991. At least, that’s the date I observe. It was on the 19th that she gathered the family together and took a ...

In February 1982, in the middle of my freshman year, I was invited to a party by the most glamorous sophomore I had ever met (now one of my closest friends), and I was wildly ...

This article is a survey of the field of depression that looks at the illness in social and cultural terms, attempting to examine how it functions across history, across ...

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. It costs more in treatment and lost productivity than anything but heart ...

It’s been quite a year for Honest Abe. January saw the publication of C. A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, which makes a strained case for Lincoln’s ...