Darian Leader

The widely acclaimed author of The New Black returns with this brilliant exploration of madness. What separates the sane from the mad? How can we tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work, Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like the apparently 'normal' Harold...

A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader. It was just sex. It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when...

A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader. It was just sex... It's a familiar claim. But it's also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study. Our bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and our minds don't simply stand by—as we can see from...

A brand-new treatise on the history and stigmas of bipolar disorders from the award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400% and...

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 satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to...