{"title":"Darian Leader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarian Leader\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of the human psyche, blending insights from philosophy and psychology to challenge conventional understandings of mental health and desire. His works delve into the complexities of emotional experience, encouraging readers to reconsider notions of madness, pleasure, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thoughtful and accessible prose, Leader invites reflection on the intricate relationship between mind and culture. These books are essential for those interested in self-understanding, wellness, and the deeper questions that shape personal development.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-is-madness-by-darian-leader-9780141047355","title":"What is Madness?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe widely acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Black\u003c\/em\u003e returns with this brilliant exploration of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat separates the sane from the mad? How can we tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy exploring the idea of quiet madness—where 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46556833022188,"sku":"9780141047355","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5275533482238.jpg?v=1750171242"},{"product_id":"is-it-ever-just-sex-by-darian-leader-9780241624012","title":"Is It Ever Just Sex?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt was just sex.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a familiar claim. But is it really possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany the highs of sexual excitement show us that much more is at stake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what are we really thinking about when we think about sex? And what are we really doing when we do it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs acclaimed psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues, with his trademark clarity, energy and wit, there is no such thing as \u003cem\u003ejust sex\u003c\/em\u003e. It is always about so much more than that - about phantasy, anxiety, guilt, revenge, violence, love - and Leader draws on his analytic experience, historical research and case studies to explore their importance to every aspect of our sexual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000654741740,"sku":"9780241624012","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28039453482273.jpg?v=1763294137"},{"product_id":"is-it-ever-just-sex-by-darian-leader-9780241998168","title":"Is It Ever Just Sex?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt was just sex...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a familiar claim. But it's also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them together, and our minds don't simply stand by—as we can see from the pain, heartache and regret that so often accompany the highs of sexual excitement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs acclaimed psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues, with his trademark clarity, energy and wit, sex is always about so much more than itself—it's about phantasy, anxiety, guilt, revenge, violence, love. Drawing on his long analytic experience, historical research and case studies to explore their importance to every aspect of our sexual lives, Leader brilliantly reveals what we are really thinking about when we think about sex—and what we are really doing when we do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000654872812,"sku":"9780241998168","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3695223482274.jpg?v=1763294144"},{"product_id":"jouissance-by-darian-leader-9781509548842","title":"Jouissance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the term \u003cem\u003ejouissance\u003c\/em\u003e is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering, and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different issues that should be distinguished rather than conflated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy returning to some of the sources of the concept in Freud, and their elaborations in Lacan, \u003cem\u003eJouissance\u003c\/em\u003e hopes to stimulate a debate around the relations of pleasure to pain, autoerotism, the links of satisfaction to arousal, the effects of repression, and the place of the body in psychoanalytic theory. 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Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, Darian Leader challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to rethink the highs and lows of mania and depression.\n\nWhat, he asks, do these experiences have to do with love, guilt and rage? Why the spending sprees and the intense feeling of connection with the world? Why the confidence, the self-esteem and the sense of a bright future that can so swiftly turn into despair and dejection?\n\nOnly by looking at these questions in a new way will we be able to understand and help the person caught between feelings that can be so terrifying and so exhilarating, so life-affirming yet also so lethal.\n\nStrictly Bipolar is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary views of the self, bipolarity and a deeper understanding of manic-depression.","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406339555564,"sku":"9780241146101","price":12.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7109etop05L._SL1500.jpg?v=1773963039"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/darian-leader.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}