The Noonday Demon (119 page)

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Authors: Andrew Solomon

of successful people,
255

of terror survivors,
281
–82

variety of means for,
259
–60

in Vietnam War era,
262

suicide prevention movement,
248

Sullivan, Andrew,
178

supermarkets, choices in,
408
–9

Supplemental Security Income (SSI),
160
,
368

support groups,
137
,
159
–62

surgery,
163
–65,
441

survival courses,
137
,
142
–44

Sweden:

alcohol consumption in,
227

suicide rates in,
248

Swift, Jonathan,
317
,
482

synaptic cleft,
332
,
333

synaptic function,
55

Szasz, Thomas,
247
–48,
393

T

TAC (Treatment Advocacy Center),
380

talking therapies:

ancient roots of,
287
,
291

cognitive-behavioral therapy,
104
,
107
–9,
111
,
228
–29,
351

duration of,
102
–3

eighteenth-century rejection of,
307

EMDR incorporated in,
141

emotional candor within,
106

emotional insight gained from,
102
–3

funding cuts for,
384

in Greenlandic Inuit Eskimo culture,
213
–15

in groups,
137
,
158
–62,
170
,
341
–42,
343
,
354

high costs of,
107

indigent depressed responses to,
341
–42,
344
,
351
,
358
,
359

initial development of,
102
,
323
–26

interpersonal therapy,
107
,
109
–10

long-term efficacy of,
103
–4

physical intervention integrated with,
101
–2

physiological alterations effected by,
111

as protection against recurrence,
104

psychoanalysis,
48
,
50
–51,
102
–3,
323
–26,
328

psychopharmacology vs.,
101
–2,
103
–4,
451

religious practice vs.,
130
–32

speech as mood-enhancer in,
419

therapist selection process in,
105
–7,
110
–11

three forms of,
37

Taylor, Shelley E.,
433
–34

Taylor, Verta,
457

TB (tuberculosis), outreach treatment programs for,
378
,
493

teenage depression,
187
–89,
461

Tegretol,
93
–94

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord,
270
,
321

terror, resistance to,
281

testosterone injections,
117

Thase, Michael,
145
–46

Thomas Aquinas, Saint,
62
,
293
,
450
,
479

Thompson, William,
483

thyroid releasing hormone (TRH),
55
,
56
,
145
,
448

“time born,”
17

“Tithonus” (Tennyson),
270

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
250

Tofranil,
114

Topamax,
119
,
422

transitional societies,
208
,
407

trauma:

therapy directed toward memories of,
140
–41,
158
–59

tolerance levels for,
85
,
302
–3,
355

trazodone,
116
,
193

treatment,
101
–34

access to,
353

alternative methods of,
135
–72;
see also
specific alternative therapies

of children,
183
,
184
–89

civil right to avoidance of,
378
,
394

combination, efficacy of,
451

in community clinics,
377
–78,
384
,
391
,
392
,
393

costs of,
337
,
339
,
340
,
353
,
382
–83,
490

drop-in centers of,
391
–92

of elderly,
190
–93

electroconvulsive therapy,
62
,
75
–76,
82
,
120
–23,
139
,
163
,
190
,
252
,
366
,
397
,
423

in emergency facilities,
83
–85,
381

evolutionary knowledge as factor in,
419

historical methods of,
286
–87,
288
,
289
,
290
,
291
,
300
,
303
–4,
309
,
313
,
317
–18,
327

hospitalization for,
75
,
120
,
165
–66,
190
,
309
,
317
–21,
370
–71,
378
–82,
385
–93,
423
,
424
,
425
,
427
–28

inappropriate,
26

inclusive biopsychosocial model of,
101
–2

of indigent depressed,
335
,
336
–60,
375
,
488

individual choices on,
123
–25

lack of,
25
,
80

noncompliance with,
116

outreach programs of,
338
,
341
,
349
,
375

patent process reforms and,
395

percentage of depressed population in,
25
–26,
446

pharmaceutical industry bias in,
394
–95,
495

political influences on,
361
,
375
–78

preventative,
56
–57,
60
,
120

quality standards of,
354

religious belief as,
130
–33

resistance felt toward,
338
,
341
,
354

of specific populations,
37
,
183
,
184
–89,
190
–94;
see also
populations

of substance abusers with depression,
37
,
218
–22,
228
,
354
,
468

two major modalities of,
101
–2

voluntary vs. involuntary,
378
–82,
386
,
393
–94

see also
antidepressant medications; talking therapies

Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC),
380

Treisman, Glenn,
340
,
346
,
347
,
353
–54,
490

TRH (thyroid releasing hormone),
55
,
56
,
145
,
448

tricyclics:

cocaine use with,
222

discovery of,
331

manic-depressive disorder and,
118

neurotransmitters and,
114
,
117
,
171

reuptake mechanism blocked by,
332

SAMe vs.,
148

side effects of,
115
,
117
–18

triune brain,
414
–15

Troisi, Alfonso,
401
–2,
406
,
407
,
419

tryptophan,
111
–12,
138

tryptophan hydroxylase,
254

tuberculosis (TB), outreach treatment programs for,
378
,
493

Tuke, Daniel H.,
485
–86

Tuke, Samuel,
317
–18

TWA flight 800,
435

Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of
Brutes
(Willis),
306
–7

Tylenol,
267

U

Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski),
125

unconscious mind,
102
,
323

Undercurrents
(Manning),
121
–23

unemployment,
337
,
345
,
351

Upjohn,
171

V

Valenstein, Elliot,
111
,
113
,
163
,
394

Valium,
74
,
93
,
94
,
95
,
98
,
119
,
228
,
234

van den Berg, J. H.,
407

Vasari, Giorgio,
296
,
479

venlafaxine (Efexor/Effexor),
76
,
78
,
86
,
87
,
114
,
118
,
119
,
160
,
235
,
334
,
447

Venter, Craig J.,
456

Veterans Administration,
381
,
494

Viagra,
92
,
117

Victoria Falls,
27
–28

Victorian period,
318
,
320
,
321

Vietnam War:

heroin use in,
232
,
469

homeless veterans of,
381

suicides during,
262

Villette
(Brontë),
133
–34

violence:

of depressed men,
178
–80

economic privation linked with,
347

involuntary commitment due to,
380

mental illness associated with,
373
–74

in rural poverty,
351

self-destructive behavior vs.,
424

vision,
56
,
60

vitamins,
138
–39

volition,
102
,
224
–25,
294
,
348
,
350
,
432

Volkow, Nora,
466

Voltaire,
311
,
315
,
317

W

Wallace, Mike,
365
,
491

Walpole, Horace,
311
,
312

Warnock, Julia,
117

Washington, Lolly (pseudonym),
340
–43,
349
,
360

Waste Land, The
(Eliot),
270
–71

Watson, James,
138

Watson, Paul J.,
409
–10

Weaver, Claudia (pseudonym),
149
–58,
438
,
442
,
456

Wehr, Thomas,
144
,
145
,
406
,
455

Weil, Andrew,
147
,
455

Weiss, Mark,
49

Weissman, Myrna,
109
,
175
,
457
,
458
,
460
–61

welfare recipients:

depression rates of,
336
,
338

government spending levels on,
338
–39

work transition programs of,
338

welfare reform,
336
,
360

Wellbutrin,
86
,
93
,
95
,
119
,
121
,
127
,
163
,
235
,
447

activating potential of,
87
,
114

negative sexual side effects ameliorated with,
92

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