Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
Andrew Solomon: Hayatımızın en kötü anları nasıl kim olacağımızı belirler
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beklediğini sandım.
alakasının olmadığını
multiple severe disabilities,
more than you can handle,'
gibi sözler söylerler,
had been some sort of error,
olduğunu düşündü ve
hayvanat bahçesine götürdü ve
kişiliğin
bir çocuk sahibi olmuştu.
sık düşünür müsün?
şimdi sadece acıyorum.''
düşünmüştüm.
özelliklerimizledir:
engellerimiz gibi.
değiştirmektir.
görüşmeye gittim
için minettar olduğunu söyledi.
doğum sancılarını çekmişti.
ve kimlik inşa edebileceğiniz
remotely approaching
kişilerin reçete ettiği,
aslında fahişe olmayan,
teşvik edildiğim
olabilirdik ama
gibi
için eğitiliyorduk.''
önerdi.
front of one of the barricades,
Jeffersonian panegyric to democracy
bir methiye başlattı,
besler ve
kullandım.
bir dünya verdi.
iki yönlüdür:
ile ilgili diye övebilirler.
yer alabilirler.
daha kolay olurdu
to hate that part of myself
diye merak ediyorum.
bir boşluk yarattı ve
suçlamasız ve parti şapkasız
bunun sonuncunda
ibaret değil ve
hakediyorlar.
remarkable part of it to me.
üzgün olduklarında
korumayı başarırsam
olduğunu söylemişti.
mutluyum değil
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Solomon - WriterAndrew Solomon writes about politics, culture and psychology.
Why you should listen
Andrew Solomon is a writer, lecturer and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. He is president of PEN American Center. He writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Times.
Solomon's newest book, Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change, Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years was published in April, 2016. His previous book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, the Wellcome Prize and 22 other national awards. It tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. It was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback editions. Solomon's previous 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. It has been published in twenty-four languages. Solomon is also the author of the novel A Stone Boat and of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost.
Solomon is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts. He is a member of the boards of directors of the National LGBTQ Force and Trans Youth Family Allies. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia University Medical Center, serves on the National Advisory Board of the Depression Center at the University of Michigan, is a director of Columbia Psychiatry and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. Solomon also serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yaddo and The Alex Fund, which supports the education of Romani children. He is also a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University and a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Solomon lives with his husband and son in New York and London and is a dual national. He also has a daughter with a college friend; mother and daughter live in Texas but visit often.
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