What is Madness?

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-10-04 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books What is Madness is Darian Leaders probing study of madness. sanity. and everything in betweenWhat separates the sane from the mad How hard or easy is it to tell them apart And what if the difference is really between being mad and going madIn this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like the apparently normal Harold Shipman. he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models. What is Madness explores the idea of ??quiet madness - that at times many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must seek a new way to assess. treat and deal with those suffering mental health problems.