Andrew Solomon, PhD

What are the mechanisms of resilience for people dealing with major depression or other life challenges? Is it better to run from such difficulties once they are resolved, and never look back, or to incorporate them into a fluent life narrative?

In this brief video, Andrew Solomon, PhD, author of 

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

 reflects on both depression and the experiences of parents whose children have various stigmatized illnesses or identities. He talks about how psychiatrists and psychologists may support depressed or traumatized patients foster resilience by helping them to find meaning in their travails without trivializing their pain.

Dr Solomon is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University and Special Advisor on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Mental Health at Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

You can listen to his TED Talks by clicking on these links.

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

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In this video, Dr Andrew Solomon talks about how psychiatrists and psychologists can help depressed or traumatized patients foster resilience, without trivializing their pain.

Recovering From Depression and Difficulty: Finding Meaning in Adversity

Is being transgender an identity, like being gay? Is it a disorder? If it’s entirely an identity, then there is no insurance coverage basis for surgical or hormonal interventions. If it is disorder or disease, there are those who will try to “cure” people whose best interests are served by being accepted and celebrated.

Moreover, the level of transphobia in the US is staggering; transgendered people are murdered at extraordinarily high rates. How, then, to protect these people from physical harm or from efforts to “cure” them without telling them that their most essential belief about themselves is an illness?

Here to discuss the transgender conundrum is Andrew Solomon, author of 

which will be published in the fall of 2012. He is also author of 

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

 which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. [A PhD in Psychology as of August 2013], Dr Solomon is a lecturer in 

 and Special Advisor on LGBT affairs to the 

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Transphobia is rampant in the US. Transgendered and LGBTs are bullied and victimized at alarmingly high rates. How, then, to protect these people from physical harm and treat mental health concerns?

Author | Andrew Solomon, PhD

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Recovering From Depression and Difficulty: Finding Meaning in Adversity

The Transgender Conundrum