Why is modern medicine wrong about depression? What lies beyond its surface symptoms? How do we deal with the experience of loss? In The New Black, Darian Leader argues that mourning and melancholia lie at the heart of what we call depression, but that we neither fully understand nor appreciate the influence of either in our inner lives. By looking more deeply at how we respond to experiences of loss, he seeks to free us from the grip of feelings that, if we let them, may destroy us.