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Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader
Category: Health and Wellbeing
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as hav ...Show more
Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered why people get ill when they do? How does the mind affect the body? Why does modern medicine seem to have so little interest in the unconscious processes that can make us fall ill? And what, if anything, can we do about it? "Why Do People Get Ill?" lucidly explores the relationshi ...Show more
Why Do People Get Ill? Exploring the Mind-Body Connection by Darian Leader
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And what - if anything - can we do about it? "Why Do People Get Ill?" explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and what happens in our bodies, ...Show more
Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? by Darian Leader
Category: Politics
Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not posted, at whom is it really directed? As psychoanalyst Darian Leader shows, such questions go to the heart of sexual desire, which is never ...Show more