Podcast Episodes featuring Andrew Solomon

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[Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - February 04, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Andrew Solomon in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” That episode also includes the voices of Anita Barrows and Parker Palmer.  Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.  Andrew Solomon is a jo...

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#45: Andrew Solomon - Writer on depression and dealing with differences in a family

So-Called Normal - November 18, 2019 15:01 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Mark is joined by Andrew Solomon to discuss the award winning writer's personal story of depression and coming out to his family. They also talk about Andrew's work with Far From the Tree, his book that became a documentary focused on parents and their children with physical, mental, and social ...

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Andrew Solomon: The Stories of Who We Are

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler - July 30, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.3K ratings
Writer Andrew Solomon never felt like he fit in. But studying other communities that celebrate differences transformed his sense of belonging and his parenting. Which aspects of our kids should we attempt to change and which need to be celebrated? Andrew and Kate discuss what it's like to be dif...

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The magic of accepting "unlovable people" with author Andrew Solomon

Grow Big Always - November 21, 2016 15:19 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
This episode couldn’t be more timely as we recover from the national fear-mongering that drove our unprecedented 2016 presidential election. It’s amazing when you stop and think about how much we’re told about what shouldn’t be lovable. So much is vilified. It could be our own feelings, other g...

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SUMMER READING with Andrew Solomon, Simon Savidge, Emma Cline, Ruth Ware and more

VINTAGE BOOKS - June 30, 2016 14:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 26 ratings
Alex Clark and Will Rycroft are joined in the studio by blogger Simon Savidge to discuss what makes the perfect summer read; we go around the world with Emma Cline, Milena Busquets, Yewande Omotoso and Ruth Ware as they explain why location was so important to their latest books; and Andrew Solo...

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Andrew Solomon

Private Passions - June 19, 2016 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Andrew Solomon is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia Medical Centre in New York, and a writer with a wide-ranging interest in families. He spent ten years talking to parents who faced extraordinary challenges, because their children had turned out so very different from them: either th...

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Encore: Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon

Authentic Living - October 28, 2015 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the a...

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Special Encore Presentation: Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon

Authentic Living - June 24, 2015 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the a...

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Special Encore Presentation: Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon

Authentic Living - July 09, 2014 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Your Authentic Self is wise, knows the highest path for your life and has never been wounded. That’s right. You have a part of you that has never been wounded. In fact, that part is the truest essence of who you are. Would you like to access it? Do you know how to use your own internal guidan...

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How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

TED Talks Society and Culture - May 21, 2014 15:03 - ★★★★ - 687 ratings
Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he's met in the years since. In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon ...

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Special Encore Presentation: Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon

Authentic Living - March 05, 2014 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Your Authentic Self is wise, knows the highest path for your life and has never been wounded. That’s right. You have a part of you that has never been wounded. In fact, that part is the truest essence of who you are. Would you like to access it? Do you know how to use your own internal guidan...

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Authentic Living with Special Guest Andrew Solomon

Authentic Living - February 12, 2014 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the a...

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Depression, the secret we share | Andrew Solomon

TED Health - December 18, 2013 16:01 - Video ★★★★ - 957 ratings
"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him...

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Love, no matter what | Andrew Solomon

TED Talks Society and Culture - June 03, 2013 15:10 - ★★★★ - 687 ratings
What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents -- asking them: What's the line between uncond...

Books written by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon

576 pages - ★★★★ - 8.75K ratings

The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
Andrew Solomon

560 pages - ★★★★ - 112 ratings