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by Darian Leader (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (31 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0241143179
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241143179
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Praise for Darian Leader's books: 'Fascinating... compelling' Lisa Appignanesi 'Elegant, erudite, illuminating' Alain de Botton 'Beautifully written... unpretentious, individual and rather brave' Observer


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"Compelling and important...An engrossing and wise book, The New Black is not only an illuminating read. It convinces us that this level of intelligence and ideas is essential today, otherwise the general public is left with only the feeblest guides to life, self-help books, "cheer-up" manuals and the fatuous notion that our conflicts are caused by something we can only describe as brain chemistry"
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33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps a Masterpiece, 28 Feb 2008
This is a comprehensive, poetic and beautifully written account of how loss affects us and and what the job of mourning entails. Drawing on clinical findings, popular culture and the literature of grief, Leader's investigation into this subject is always sensitive and intelligent and often startling. His insights and wisdom both delight and console.
On a personal level I have been thinking about my own losses for the best part of my life, yet Leader's book made me see important parallels and distinctions that would never otherwise have occurred to me.
This book not only revives important and neglected dialogues, reinforcing and reinterpreting Freud's famous treatise on this subject, it actually makes you feel better! The New Black is a book that needed to be written, for in the prevalent culture, I believe, we feel even more uncertain about how to position ourselves in relation to our losses than ever before. This is a distinguished work, and a lovely one, which people will be reading for many many years to come.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you very much, Darian Leader, 27 May 2008
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I've never typed a review on Amazon before but I have to give my support to this book. It is so important. Death and loss are around us every day and yet their existence is denied. In this book Darian Leader writes clearly, intelligently, concisely and thoughtfully about loss and about the process of grieving. This book explained so many things to me that I could never have worked out for myself. It may not be designed as a self help book but it is a book which does help. If people listend to Darian Leader we would have very much less depression and unhappiness in our society. Yes, you should definitely read this book. I'm about to read it for a second time because there is so much in it that I couldn't take it all in the first time around.
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5.0 out of 5 stars NHS psychotherapist, 2 May 2009
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I greatly enjoyed this book. What is most outstanding us how Darian Leader brings very complex ideas alive through examples from his clinic. A welcome anecdote to the simplistic ideas that often predominate depression discourse in such times.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever!
Mourning, melancholia and depression are words which are thrown around in society every day but very few people actually know the diferences between them. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars nothing new here
This book re-hashes some very old ideas about depression, many of which are not supported by empirical evidence. Read more
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