May 2020
Andrew Solomon and Bethany Saltman discuss Saltman’s new book, Strange Situation, an investigation of attachment theory inspired by the author’s experience as a daughter and a parent.
May 2020
Andrew Solomon talks to Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh about the loneliness, depression and anxiety precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2020
Andrew Solomon talks to Maureen Connolly about living with mental health disorders during the coronavirus pandemic, how to navigate social isolation, and what we can all do to emerge from this crisis healthy and whole.
May 2020
Andrew Solomon remembers his psychiatrist, the late Dr. Richard Friedman, who spent a lifetime fighting the idea that homosexuality was pathological.
Apr 2020
Andrew Solomon discusses the risk of isolation to people with mental illness, and strategies that can help us deal with it.
Apr 2020
Andrew Solomon joins Family Equality for a never-before-shared reading of his new work in progress, and a conversation about depression and anxiety, fatherhood, and social distancing.
Apr 2020
“It’s not that an antidepressant will make people unafraid of this mysterious and awful virus, nor that a single hug will mitigate their profound aloneness, but they can help.”
Apr 2020
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Solomon and Johann Hari discuss the mental health consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, and what quarantining and maintaining social isolation means to our emotional well being.
Apr 2020
The response of the the most solitary organism is already different, which may make depressives more prone to the diseases they are trying to avoid.
Apr 2020
Ironically, this time of isolation is the most important time for us to rely on the collective experience.
