Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy – WCSPP.ORG
Join us on Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8:30 p.m. for a very special evening with Andrew Solomon, award-winning journalist, speaker and author of the new book, Far From the Tree. WCSPP, 468 Rosedale Ave., White Plains, NY 10605.
Admission: $40, payable by cash or check only.
Doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
RSVP to barish@wcspp.org
Our apologies, but we cannot accept credit cards at this time.
Andrew Solomon is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and National Public Radio. He has written on a broad variety of topics, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, and Libyan politics. His talk, “Love, No Matter What,” has enjoyed a wide online audience on TED. His bestselling book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times of London’s list of one hundred best books of the decade. Solomon’s newest book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, published on November 13, 2012, won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction; the J. Anthony Lukas award; the Anisfield-Wolf Award; the Books for a Better Life Award; Yale University’s Research Advocacy Award; the GRASP Friend and Benefactor award; the Fountain House Humanitarian Award; the Mike Wallace Award of the University of Michigan; the Columbia Gray Matters Award; the Distinguished Achievement Award in Nonfiction of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; and the Phoenix Award. Solomon is an activist and philanthropist in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts. He is also a lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College and a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia University Medical Center.