The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

by Darian Leader (Author)

Synopsis

What 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 31 Jan 2008

ISBN 10: 0241143179
ISBN 13: 9780241143179

Media Reviews

Praise for Darian Leader's books:

'Fascinating... compelling' Lisa Appignanesi

'Elegant, erudite, illuminating' Alain de Botton

'Beautifully written... unpretentious, individual and rather brave' Observer


Praise for Darian Leader's books:

'Fascinating... compelling' Lisa Appignanesi

'Elegant, erudite, illuminating' Alain de Botton

'Beautifully written... unpretentious, individual and rather brave' Observer

Author Bio
Darian Leader is a British psychoanalyst and the author of Introducing Lacan, Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?, Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late, Freud's Footnotes, Stealing the Mona Lisa, Why do People Get Ill (co-written with David Corfield), The New Black, What Is Madness, Strictly Bipolar and Hands. He practises psychoanalysis in London, and he is a member of the College of Psychoanalysts and a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.