Darian Leader (born 1965) is a British

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

and author.

Biography

Leader was educated at St Paul's School in London, studied

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Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to the university between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the oldest of ...

and then he earned an M.A. in

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in Paris (at Paris VIII), where he also trained as an analyst. He is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR). Darian Leader was president of the College of Psychoanalysts, a trustee of the Freud Museum, and honorary visiting professor in psychoanalysis at

Roehampton University The University of Roehampton, London, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The University traces its r ...

. In 2015 he received the Mercier Chair at the University of Louvain for his work in psychoanalysis.

Works

* ''Lacan for Beginners'', 1995, later editions with a changed title: ''Introducing Lacan'' (2000, 2005) * ''Why Do Women Write More Letters Than they Post?'', 1996 * ''Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late'', 1997 * ''Freud's Footnotes'', 2000 * ''Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing'', 2002 * ''Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body-Connection'' (with David Corfield), 2007 * ''The New Black. Mourning, Melancholia and Depression'', 2008 * ''What Is Madness?'', 2011 * ''Strictly Bipolar'', 2013 * ''Hands: What We Do With Them – and Why'', 2016 *''Why Can't We Sleep?, 2019'' *''Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction. 2021'' *''Is It Ever Just Sex? 2024'' A list of journal articles can be foun
here.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leader, Darian Living people Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge English writers British psychoanalysts 1965 births People from Alameda County, California