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product_id: 5525113
title: "The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression"
brand: "darian leader"
price: "R920"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression

**Brand:** darian leader
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- **What is this?** The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression by darian leader
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The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression

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## Customer Reviews

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    Worth reading and thinking about
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011*

I came across this book while reading an interview with a prominent Slovenian psychotherapist, and though I wasn't thinking I wanted to read a book of this type, I took a look at it on kindle, it seemed relatively easy and well written, so I read the whole thing. It's definitely not easy for a non professional or someone not very familiar with Lacanian therapy but the basic idea of delving deeper into mourning and melancholia, and contrasting it with our current culture which typically prescribes a drug for anything and everything that seems to be a mental disorder is an interesting and important one.I found the book thought provoking, making me wonder if there are some things I've glossed over in my way, and perhaps I've not properly mourned people that I've lost in my life. Psychoanalyzing oneself or getting into the meanings going on subconsciously is complicated, but the author explains it in a non-intimidating fashion.Overall a worthwhile, well written book.

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    Easy to follow
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2017*

Worth a read. Easy to follow. Complicated information digested for us by a great author.

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    Excellent, helpful analysis
  

*by F***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012*

The blurb on the cover from The Independent says that while this is not a self-help book, it could indeed be very helpful.  I certainly found this to be the case.  Leader continues with his ongoing theme (with Freud as his lodestar) that modern psychiatry is concerned less with the inner workings of a patient's mind and more with identifying symptoms for purposes of prescribing psychotropic drugs.  Similarly, approaches to loss like "The Seven Stages of Grief" focus on the surface, the symptomatic behavior that all bereaved people supposedly experience, without explaining what drives this behavior.  Leader shows that the processes of grieving, mourning, and melancholia--all distinct, and none served well by being placed under the rubric of "depression"--are complex, and vary in meaning for each individual. He notes that mourning isn't just a passive state of being, it's something that must be worked at.  Some might find it disturbing when he points out that mourning is really an active effort to kill off the departed, but I think there's wisdom to it, as well as in many of Leader's other observations.So, an unlikely but very valuable "help" book, a resource for understanding the depth psychology of loss, a bit difficult to get through at times but definitely addressed to the layperson. Highly recommended.

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