Cover of The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. In this book, Darian Leader urges us to look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of loss.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Winnicott Shares psychology, psychoanalysis, nonfiction
  2. The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds Shares psychology, nonfiction, psychotherapy
  3. Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics Shares nonfiction, psychology, psych
  4. The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment Shares psychology, psychoanalysis, nonfiction

“People who read The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
  2. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
  3. Anime: from Akira to Princess Mononoke, Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
  4. Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice

“If you want more of the same (psychology about mental health), start with these.”

  1. The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
  2. The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
  3. Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors
  4. What Doesn't Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth

“If it was the psychoanalysis that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Schreber Case
  2. Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis
  3. Shadow of the Object
  4. Basic Freud

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have
  2. The Newly Born Woman
  3. Happiness Is a Choice
  4. Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes