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Title: More light!
Review: With prose that is always lucid, and often lyrical, Jeffrey Smith describes his attempt to integrate his depression into his life as a whole. To this reader, some of his survival strategies seem wrong-headed: he time and again seeks solace in the wilderness (rarely finding it), his choice of pet is all wrong (trade in the skittish cat for a german shepherd puppy), and his chosen work (with the halt and the lame) couldn't be more depressing.That said, his natural history of melancholia will provide a tonic for many a reader. He's dug up some fascinating insights and speculations about those of us who live under the sign of Saturn, much of which is passed over in silence by our current vocabulary for discussing depression.Finally, it's unfortunate that the author is so dismissive of psychoanalysis. Not the therapy, but Freud's worldview, his admirable stoicism, has served some of us very well (see FREUD: THE MIND OF THE MORALIST, by Philip Rieff).
