What is Madness? by Darian Leader
What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? This title is the study of madness, sanity, and everything in between.
Engrossing and enlightening. . Leader is as much a philosopher as a psychoanalyst * Metro *
Fascinating, humane and timely . . . Leader forces us to rethink our assumptions about 'mental health' with a formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail -- Lisa Appignanesi * New Statesman *
Witty, probing . . . A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness * Independent *
Wonderful * Bookseller *
[Says] something that very much needs to be said * Irish Times *
Fascinating, humane and timely . . . Leader forces us to rethink our assumptions about 'mental health' with a formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail -- Lisa Appignanesi * New Statesman *
Witty, probing . . . A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness * Independent *
Wonderful * Bookseller *
[Says] something that very much needs to be said * Irish Times *
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. His books include The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, Strictly Biplolar, What is Madness? , and Why Cant We Sleep?
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141047355 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141047356 |
| Title | What is Madness? |
| Author | Darian Leader |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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