Kathleen Norris on "Acedia and Me"

Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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12.27.2009

Kathleen Norris is the author most recently of "Acedia and Me." She tells Anne Strainchamps about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.

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