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, and Strictly Bipolar. 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. His new book, Hands, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in July 2016.
Engrossing and enlightening . . . Leader is as much a philosopher
as a psychoanalyst
*Metro*
Fascinating, humane and timely . . . Leader forces us to rethink
our assumptions about 'mental health' with a formidable grasp of
psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail
*New Statesman*
Witty, probing . . . A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our
madness
*Independent*
Wonderful
*Bookseller*
[Says] something that very much needs to be said
*Irish Times*
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