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What is Madness?
What is Madness? is Darian Leader's probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in betweenWhat separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And …
Jouissance
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and …
Introducing Lacan
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a …
Stealing the Mona Lisa
An exploration of the psychology of art observation is based on the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa, noting how a vast number of people went to look at the empty place in the Louvre …
The New Black
The New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating exploration of melancholyWhat happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a …
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the …
Why Do People Get Ill?
'Well-argued, thought-provoking . . . will make you think twice before reaching for the painkillers' Daily MailHave you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings …
Why Can't We Sleep?
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any …
Bacon and the Mind
Bacon and the Mind sheds light on Francis Bacon’s art by exploring his motivations, and in so doing opens up new ways of understanding his paintings through three pillars; art, …
Freud's Footnotes
Rather than focusing on the internal development of Freud's work, or his place in psychology's literary canon, this text explores the specific research questions that preoccupied …