Frases de Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon es un escritor estadounidense especializado en temas políticos, culturales y de psicología. Es Profesor de Psicología clínica en el Centro médico de la Universidad de Columbia,[1]​ y Presidente de la sección estadounidense del PEN Club Internacional.[2]​

Además de cuatro libros , ha escrito artículos y reportajes para The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure y otras publicaciones sobre temas como la depresión,[3]​ los artistas soviéticos,[4]​ el renacimiento cultural de Afganistán,[5]​ la política libia,[6]​[7]​ y la cultura sorda.[8]​

Su libro El demonio de la depresión[9]​ obtuvo el National Book Award de 2001,[10]​ fue finalista en 2002 del Premio Pulitzer,[11]​ y fue situado por The Times como uno de los cien mejores libros de la década.[12]​

En cuanto a su libro Lejos del árbol: historias de padres e hijos que han aprendido a quererse fue galardonado en 2012 con el National Book Critics Circle Award.[13]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 30. octubre 1963
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Andrew Solomon Frases y Citas

“El analfabetismo y la pobreza son discapacidades, como también lo son la imbecilidad, la obesidad y la apatía.”

Lejos del árbol: Historias de padres e hijos que han aprendido a quererse

Andrew Solomon: Frases en inglés

“A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead.”

Fuente: Far from the Tree, Ch. 1 Son, p 37.
Contexto: When parents say, "I wish my child did not have autism," what they're really saying is "I wish the autistic child I have did not exist, and I had a different [nonautistic] child instead." Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. —Jim Sinclair

“Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.”

Fuente: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 687.
Contexto: A wise psychiatrist once said to me, "People want to get better, but they don't want to change." But I would propose that it is only by allowing people born with horizontal identities not to change that one allows them to get better. Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.

“People want to get better, but they don't want to change.”

Fuente: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 687.
Contexto: A wise psychiatrist once said to me, "People want to get better, but they don't want to change." But I would propose that it is only by allowing people born with horizontal identities not to change that one allows them to get better. Any of us can be a better version of himself, but none of us can be someone else.

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”

Andrew Solomon libro Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Fuente: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.”

Andrew Solomon libro The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Fuente: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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