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Strictly Bipolar

Name: Strictly Bipolar
Author: Darian Leader

Auteur: Darian Leader

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: Darian Leader

Engels
Paperback
9780241146101
02 mei 2013
112 pagina's

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Darian Leader

"Darian Leader (b. Alameda County, California, 1965) is a British psychoanalyst and author. Leader studied Philosophy in Cambridge, and then History of Science in Paris, where he also trained as an analyst. He is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR).

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What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, this title 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.

Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times.

If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400% and overall diagnoses by 4000%.

What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? 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.

What, 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?

Only 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.

Strictly Bipolar is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary views of the self, bipolarity and a deeper understanding of manic-depression.

Praise for Strictly Bipolar:

'A beautifully thoughtful understanding not just of highs and lows,mania and depression, but of why and how these mechanisms work in our mindsand bodies and how the human subject is coerced todayto embrace a culture of 'bipolarity'' Susie Orbach

'A timely book. Darian Leader's thoughts are more fixated strong-arm interesting, more humane and more persuasive than the profit coercion of the madness industry. Instead of the shoddy reasoning that leads to wrong treatment and over-treatment, he offers illumination and insight; his book is a contribution to a debate, but it could also change lives' Hilary Mantel

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of What is Madness?, The New Black, 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? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 mei 2013
Aantal pagina's: 112
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Darian Leader
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

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Product breedte: 111 mm
Product hoogte: 6 mm
Product lengte: 181 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 113 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm
Verpakking lengte: 180 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 70 g

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Geneeskunde & Verpleging

Specialistische geneeskunde

Gezondheidsproblemen

Klinische psychologie

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Taal: Engels
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