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Darian Leader's attempt to put Freud into perspective makes it difficult to tell the wood from the treesFreud's FootnotesDarian LeaderFaber £9.99, pp253Buy it at BOLOn the death of Freud, Auden wrote,...
View ArticleObserver review: Stealing the Mona Lisa by Darian Leader
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader sees a zone of emptiness wherever he looks as he examines the modernist era in Stealing the Mona LisaStealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From SeeingDarian LeaderFaber...
View ArticleReviews: Stealing the Mona Lisa by Darian Leader and Pictures and Tears by...
What's behind the Mona Lisa? Alfred Hickling on two studies of our responses to art: Stealing the Mona Lisa by Darian Leader and Pictures and Tears by James Elkins Stealing the Mona LisaDarian Leader...
View ArticleFrieze Art Fair: Good Taste? Bad Taste?
A discussion exploring the role of taste in the visual arts today. How is individual taste formed? What does taste mean today?Carlo Antonelli (Editor-in-chief, Rolling Stone magazine, Italy)Thelma...
View ArticleReview: Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield
Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield suggests we radically overhaul the way doctors workWhy Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield Continue reading...
View ArticleStuart Jeffries on how psychoanalysis can help illness
Illness - even cancer - is the body's way of communicating, but doctors don't have time to listen, says Darian Leader. Psychoanalysis may take years to make you better, but it beats quick-fix...
View ArticleReview: Nervous System and Why Do People Get Ill?
Hilary Mantel enjoys some intriguing speculations on the link between body and mind in Jan Lars Jensen's Nervous System and Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David CorfieldWhy Do People Get...
View ArticleSusanna Rustin talks to psychoanalyst Darian Leader
The psychoanalyst Darian Leader says we've forgotten how to mourn, and that our understanding of relationships and our emotional life is 'catastrophic'. So, are you sitting comfortably?There are two...
View ArticleReview: The New Black by Darian Leader | Shoot the Damn Dog by Sally Brampton
Darian Leader's The New Black and Sally Brampton's Shoot the Damn Dog suggest we have got depression all wrong, says Hilary MantelThe New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader...
View ArticleThe creation of the Prozac myth
In the 20 years since its launch, 40m people worldwide have taken the so-called wonder drug - but research revealed this week shows that Prozac, and similar antidepressants, are no more effective than...
View ArticleLetters: The Health Professions Council and psychotherapy
Is it possible that Darian Leader is getting a little intoxicated with his own rhetoric? In his article (Talking therapy, 9 April) he describes well the special nature of psychotherapy. However, in a...
View ArticleVideo: 'You can never define madness in terms of an external, visible...
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader on certainty, madness, and what it means to be normal Continue reading...
View ArticleWhat Is Madness? by Darian Leader – review
A new manifesto on how best to treat mental disorderIt is often assumed that Freud's most disturbing idea was that of sexuality, the idea that we are all perverts in our dreams. In fact, far more...
View ArticleDarian Leader: 'Madness is the rule rather than the exception' – interview
Insanity has been given a bad press, says Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and author of What Is Madness?Darian Leader lives and works in an elegant Georgian house in Clerkenwell – and yes, there is a...
View ArticleBooks for giving: psychology
VS Ramachandran examines empathy, evil torments autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen, and Darian Leader persists in some silly ideas… luckily, Lisa Appignanesi gives us a big hugIf you study one neuron,...
View ArticleStrictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review
Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder? Not on this evidenceIt may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret...
View ArticleDarian Leader: how technology is changing our hands
Doctors predict that our increasing use of computers and mobile phones will permanently alter our hands. What will this mean for the way we touch, feel and communicate?The new era of the internet, the...
View ArticleHands: What We Do with Them and Why by Darian Leader – how we keep our hands...
From flicking fans to swiping phones, humans have always loved to fiddle and fidgetHands are tricky things. You might assume that they are entirely on the side of virtue, reaching for sustenance from...
View ArticleGavin Turk: the analyst will unmask you now
He has impersonated tramps, punks, Pollock and Che. But who is the real Gavin Turk? As a major retrospective opens, we challenged psychoanalyst Darian Leader to find the man behind his many masksWho is...
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