Human history, modern life and our psychology - all told through the story of how we use our hands.
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and the author of many books, including The New Black, What Is Madness? and Is It Ever Just Sex?. He practises psychoanalysis in London, and he is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and a member of the College of Psychoanalysts UK.
Publisher's description. Why do we play with our fingers when
nervous? Why do zombies walk with their hands out? What connects
prayer beads with iPhones? Journey down the psychoanalytic rabbit
hole to discover the strange and fascinating secrets of what our
hands really say about us...
*Penguin*
A breezy cultural history of fidgeting
*Times Literary Supplement*
Leader is a psychoanalyst with a sideline in smart, elegant books
that explain ourselves to ourselves without using the jargon of
clinical literature
*Guardian*
An intriguing meditation on how vital our hands are to our
understanding of ourselves and our world
*The Times*
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