Hands
What We Do with Them – and Why
$30.88
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2017
Summary
Human history, modern life, and our psychology – all told through the story of how we use our hands.
Throughout history, civilizations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient servants that they seem to be. Through conscious and unconscious gesture, they reveal our deepest psychology, our weaknesses and obsessions…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241974001 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241974003 |
| Author: | Darian Leader |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 99g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
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 *
Darian Leader
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. His books include The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, Strictly Biplolar, What is Madness?, and Why Cant We Sleep?
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