A Cure for Darkness: The story of depression and how we treat it
Book Details
- Publisher : Penguin Books
- Published : 2022
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 456
- Category :
Popular Psychology - Catalogue No : 96561
- ISBN 13 : 9781785039027
- ISBN 10 : 9781785039
About the Author(s)
Alex Riley is an award-winning science writer and the author of A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It, his first book. He received a best feature award at the 2019 Association of British Science Writers Awards for his reporting on The Friendship Bench, a project that began in Zimbabwe in 2006 and has since provided mental health care to thousands of people in New York. Since leaving academia in 2015, he began writing popular science articles for magazines such as New Scientist, PBS's NOVA Next, BBC Future, Mosaic Science, Aeon, and Nautilus Magazine. He lives in Bristol.