Darian Leader

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Darian Leader
Born1965
Alameda County, California
OccupationPsychoanalyst and author
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Paul's School, London
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
Paris VIII[1]
Literary movementLacanianism
Notable awardsTrustee of the Freud Museum
Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University

Darian Leader (born 1965) is a British psychoanalyst and author.[2]

Biography[]

Leader was educated at St Paul's School in London, studied philosophy at Downing College, Cambridge and then he earned an M.A. in history of science in Paris (at Paris VIII), where he also trained as an analyst.[3][4] He is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR).[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Darian Leader was President of the ,[14] a Trustee of the Freud Museum, and Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University.[15] In 2015 he received the Mercier Chair at the University of Louvain for his work in psychoanalysis.[16]

Works[]

  • Lacan for Beginners, 1995, later editions with a changed title: Introducing Lacan (2000, 2005)
  • Why Do Women Write More Letters Than they Post?, 1996
  • Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late, 1997[17]
  • Freud's Footnotes, 2000[18]
  • Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing, 2002[19]
  • Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body-Connection (with David Corfield), 2007[20][21][22][23]
  • The New Black. Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, 2008[24][25][26][27]
  • What Is Madness?, 2011[28][29][30][31]
  • Strictly Bipolar, 2013[32]
  • Hands: What We Do With Them – and Why, 2016[33]
  • Why Can't We Sleep?, 2019[34]
  • Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction. 2021


A list of journal articles can be found here.

References[]

  1. ^ https://jcfar.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Not-All-Darian-Leader.pdf
  2. ^ Susanna Rustin "Getting in Touch" The Guardian, 26 January 2008.
  3. ^ https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-darian-leader
  4. ^ 'Cambridge University Tripos results' Times, 10 July 1986.
  5. ^ Leader, D. (9 April 2009). "Talking therapy". The Guardian. London.
  6. ^ Leader, D (2010). "Therapy shows us life is not neat or safe. So why judge it by those criteria?". University of Roehampton. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  7. ^ Leader, D. (9 September 2008). "A quick fix for the soul". The Guardian. London.
  8. ^ Leader, D. (21 June 2011). "How psychiatry became a damage limitation exercise". The Guardian. London.
  9. ^ Leader, D. (29 July 2011). "Anders Behring Breivik and the logic of madness". The Guardian. London.
  10. ^ Leader, D. "Darian Leader interviewed about the marketing of depression".
  11. ^ Leader, D. (2011). "What is Madness?". RSA. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013.
  12. ^ Leader, D. (6 November 2012). "Nail biting doesn't belong in psychiatry's list of OCD symptoms". The Guardian. London.
  13. ^ Leader, D. (26 April 2013). "Bipolar memoirs: What have I done?". The Guardian. London.
  14. ^ http://www.psychoanalysis-cpuk.org/HTML/About.htm%20
  15. ^ http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Research-Centres/Research-Centre-for-Therapeutic-Education/Members
  16. ^ https://www.academia.edu/29932149/Cardinal_Mercier_Chair_2015_An_interview_with_Darian_Leader
  17. ^ Radin, Victoria (19 November 1997). "Wednesday's Book: Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late by Darian Leader". London: The Independent, Wednesday, 19 November 1997.
  18. ^ Faber, & Faber. "Freud's Footnotes: Darian Leader". 7 February 2000. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008.
  19. ^ Herman, David. "Stealing the Mona Lisa: what art stops us from seeing by Darian Leader". London: The Independent, Tuesday, 19 March 2002. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011.
  20. ^ Appignanesi, Lisa (18 February 2007). "Sick in the head". London: The Observer, Sunday 18 February 2007.
  21. ^ Mantel, Hilary (24 February 2007). "All in the mind?". London: The Guardian, Saturday 24 February 2007.
  22. ^ Hanif Kureishi, Christopher Tayler (11 March 2007). "Christopher Tayler & Hanif Kureishi review Why Do People Get Ill?". London: The Telegraph, 11 March 2007.
  23. ^ Jeffries, Stuart (23 February 2007). "Talking cure". London: The Guardian, Friday 23 February 2007.
  24. ^ Leith, William (5 March 2008). "The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression by Darian Leader". London: The Telegraph, 12:02AM GMT 5 March 2008.
  25. ^ Kureishi, Hanif. "The Sadness Epidemic". New Statesman, 21 February 2008.
  26. ^ Appignanesi, Lisa (25 January 2008). "The New Black, By Darian Leader". London: The Independent, Friday, 25 January 2008.
  27. ^ Mantel, Hilary (2 February 2008). "Anatomy of melancholy". London: The Guardian, Saturday 2 February 2008.
  28. ^ Linklater, Alexander (9 October 2011). "What is Madness? by Darian Leader – review". London: The Observer, Sunday 9 October 2011.
  29. ^ Rose, Jacqueline (1 October 2011). "What Is Madness? by Darian Leader – review". London: \The Guardian, Thursday 29 September 2011.
  30. ^ Shakespeare, Nicholas (24 October 2011). "What Is Madness? by Darian Leader: review". London: The Telegraph, 24 October 2011.
  31. ^ Kureishi, Hanif (7 October 2011). "What is Madness?, By Darian Leader – Review". London: The Independent, Friday, 7 October 2011.
  32. ^ Linklater, Alexander (6 May 2013). "Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review". London: \The Guardian, Monday 6 May 2013.
  33. ^ Baggini, Julian (13 June 2016). "Hands: What We Do With Them – and Why by Darian Leader – review". London: \The Guardian, Monday 13 June 2016.
  34. ^ Grant, Colin (3 March 2019). "Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader review – in search of the land of nod". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
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