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Darian Leader

November 2016

  • Gavin Turk (right) with psychoanalyst Darian Leader

    Gavin Turk: the analyst will unmask you now

    He has impersonated tramps, punks, Pollock and Che. But who is the real Gavin Turk? As a major retrospective opens, we challenged psychoanalyst Darian Leader to find the man behind his many masks

August 2016

  • Tinder online dating app

    Book of the day
    Hands: What We Do with Them and Why by Darian Leader – how we keep our hands out of mischief

    From flicking fans to swiping phones, humans have always loved to fiddle and fidget

May 2016

  • Detail from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

    Darian Leader: how technology is changing our hands

    Doctors predict that our increasing use of computers and mobile phones will permanently alter our hands. What will this mean for the way we touch, feel and communicate?

May 2013

  • Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, the bipolar heroine of American drama Homeland.

    Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review

    Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder? Not on this evidence, writes Alexander Linklater

December 2011

  • Brain cell activity as depicted by the Institute for Stem Cell Research.

    2011 in review
    Books for giving: psychology

    VS Ramachandran examines empathy, evil torments autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen, and Darian Leader persists in some silly ideas… luckily, Lisa Appignanesi gives us a big hug, writes Alexander Linklater

October 2011

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    Darian Leader: 'Madness is the rule rather than the exception'

    Madness has been given a bad press, psychoanalyst and author Darian Leader tells Rachel Cooke

September 2011

  • Illustration by Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk

    Book of the week
    What Is Madness? by Darian Leader – review

    How best to treat mental disorder? Jacqueline Rose admires a new manifesto

January 2011

  • People and power
    Darian Leader: 'You can never define madness in terms of an external, visible manifestation' – video

    Psychoanalyst Darian Leader on certainty, madness, and what it means to be normal

April 2009

  • Relationships, therapy and regulation

    Letters: Is it possible that Darian Leader is getting a little intoxicated with his own rhetoric?

February 2008

  • The creation of the Prozac myth

  • Anatomy of melancholy

January 2008

  • Getting in touch

    The psychoanalyst Darian Leader says we've forgotten how to mourn, and that our understanding of relationships and our emotional life is 'catastrophic'. So, are you sitting comfortably?

February 2007

  • All in the mind?

    Hilary Mantel enjoys some intriguing speculations on the link between body and mind in Jan Lars Jensen's Nervous System and Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield.

  • Talking cure

    Illness - even cancer - is the body's way of communicating, but doctors don't have time to listen, says Darian Leader. Psychoanalysis may take years to make you better, but it beats quick-fix therapies, he tells Stuart Jeffries.

  • Sick in the head

    Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield suggests we radically overhaul the way doctors work.

October 2006

  • The Guardian UK Culture Podcast
    Frieze Art Fair: Good Taste? Bad Taste?

    A discussion exploring the role of taste in the visual arts today. How is individual taste formed? What does taste mean today?
    Carlo Antonelli (Editor-in-chief, Rolling Stone magazine, Italy)
    Thelma Golden (Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem)
    Darian Leader (Psychoanalyst)
    Tirdad Zolghadr (Writer and Curator)
    Chair: Alice Rawsthorn (Design Critic, International Herald Tribune)

April 2002

  • Stealing beauty

    What's behind the Mona Lisa? Alfred Hickling on two studies of our responses to art: Stealing the Mona Lisa by Darian Leader and Pictures and Tears by James Elkins

March 2002

  • Who's that woman hidden up his smock?

    Psychoanalyst Darian Leader sees a zone of emptiness wherever he looks as he examines the modernist era in Stealing the Mona Lisa

February 2000

  • I blame the parents...

    Darian Leader's attempt to put Freud into perspective makes it difficult to tell the wood from the trees

May 1999

  • Forget about the patient on the couch. It can be just as fascinating to take a look into the therapist's mind

    Darian Leader reviews The Impossibility of Sex by Susie Orbach.
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