The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression by Darian Leader

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The New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating exploration of melancholy

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.

Also by Darian Leader:

• On the Marketing of Depression

• What is Madness?

• Why do women write more letters than they post?

• Why Do People Get Ill?: Exploring the Mind-body Connection

• Strictly Bipolar

• Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide