What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader (Penguin, £9.99)
A practising psychoanalyst, Leader might be expected to value listening to what his patients have to say over recourse to drugs or ECT, perhaps. But this superb analysis of the difference between, say, delusion and reality (which often medicine can't help) emphasises the human need for us to tell our own stories.
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