The New Black : Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression Condition:Well Read Carly Phillips

Carly Phillips

Written with love

a transgender woman

The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading

The New Black : Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression Condition:Well Read Carly PhillipsFifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In The New Black , Darian Leader argues that this shift is more than semantic; rather, it speaks to our culture's complicated relationship with loss, suffering, and grief. Part memoir, part cultural analysis,