{"product_id":"strictly-bipolar","title":"Strictly Bipolar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrictly Bipolar\u003c\/i\u003e is Darian Leader''s treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the post-war period was called the ''Age of Anxiety'' and the 1980s and ''90s the ''Antidepressant Era'', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400% and overall diagnoses by 4000%.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, Darian Leader challenges the rise of ''bipolar'' as a catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to rethink the highs and lows of mania and depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat, he asks, do these experiences have to do with love, guilt and rage? Why the spending sprees and the intense feeling of connection with the world? Why the confidence, the self-esteem and the sense of a bright future that can so swiftly turn into despair and dejection?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly by looking at these questions in a new way will we be able to understand and help the person caught between feelings that can be so terrifying and so exhilarating, so life-affirming yet also so lethal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrictly Bipolar\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary views of the self, bipolarity and a deeper understanding of manic-depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e Strictly Bipolar\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A beautifully thoughtful understanding not just of highs and lows,mania and depression, but of why and how these mechanisms work in our mindsand bodies and how the human subject is coerced todayto embrace a culture of ''bipolarity''''  \u003cb\u003eSusie Orbach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A timely book. Darian Leader''s thoughts are more fixated strong-arm interesting, more humane and more persuasive than the profit coercion of the madness industry. Instead of the shoddy reasoning that leads to wrong treatment and over-treatment, he offers illumination and insight; his book is a contribution to a debate, but it could also change lives''  \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDarian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat is Madness?, The New Black, Why do women write more letters than they post?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePromises lovers make when it gets late\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreud''s Footnotes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStealing the Mona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author, with David Corfield, of \u003ci\u003eWhy Do People Get Ill?  \u003c\/i\u003eHe is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319323926910,"sku":"NW9780241146101","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241146101.jpg?v=1778689848","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/strictly-bipolar","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}