What is Madness?
Book Details
- Publisher : Penguin
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 368
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Popular Psychology - Catalogue No : 33806
- ISBN 13 : 9780141047355
- ISBN 10 : 9780141047
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What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to 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 Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models. What is Madness? explores the idea of quiet madness - that at times many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must seek a new way to assess, treat and deal with those suffering mental health problems.
About the Author(s)
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London. He is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of 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?.
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