Darian Leader The New Black (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The New BlackCondition: NewEAN: 9780141021225ISBN: 9780141021225Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/29/2009Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 170gAuthor: Darian LeaderLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Mourning, Melancholia and DepressionISBN-10: 0141021225Description: 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 relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are able to mourn. In this important and groundbreaking book, acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader urges us to look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of loss. In so doing, we can loosen the grip it may have upon our lives.'His orthodox, psychoanalytical approach, produces an unpredictable, occasionally brilliant book. The New Black is a mixture of Freudian text, clinical assessments and Leader's own brand of gentle wisdom' Herald'Compelling and important . . . an engrossing and wise book' Hanif Kureishi'There are many self-help books on the market . . . The New Black is a book that might actually help' IndependentDarian 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. He is the author of The New Black, Strictly Bipolar, Why do women write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Personal DevelopmentType: Illnesses & ConditionsRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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