Picked this up on a whim from our therapy library at my job and glad I did. I had heard about Styron’s book but never went out of my way to read it. Now that this has been corrected I appreciated most the candidness of Styron in sharing his thoughts and feelings in his own words regarding his “descent into the maelstrom of depression”. Styron does not shy away from the reality of his experience of psychological pain and as a psychologist I can only hope to be a light on someone’s journey to recovery.