What Is Madness? by Darian Leader
A compact, provocative psychoanalytic examination of what we call madness, tracing historical, clinical and theoretical perspectives to argue that psychosis cannot simply be reduced to brain disease; instead it is presented as a disturbance of subjective meaning, language and relation that is shaped by family, culture and power. Drawing on case vignettes and engagements with Freudian and Lacanian ideas as well as contemporary psychiatry, the book critiques diagnostic categories, institutional responses and the biomedical model, and urges clinicians and society to listen to patients’ experiences, attend to unconscious dynamics and rethink confinement and treatment so that suffering is addressed in human rather than merely technical terms.
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