A review by paulataua
What Is Madness? by Darian Leader

4.0

Darian leader undertakes an exploration of nature of psychosis, what most would consider to be what madness is. It is an interesting attempt in which Leader, relying heavily on the work of Jacques Lacan, tries to give a psychoanalytical explanation of psychosis that will be comprehensible to the laymen. That is, of course, an almost impossible task, which has much the same difficulty level as explaining quantum physics to the non-scientist. If you have a little background in Freud and Lacan, however, it is a good read, albeit at times it does overuse example stories where explanations might have been more appropriate.