I am currently working on two areas of research: late nineteenth and early twentieth century theories of psychosis and the question of disordered eating in contemporary culture. The first project involves the study of early psychiatric texts, rich with detail and the reported speech of patients, in contrast to the general absence of any reference to the lived experience of patients in today's psychiatric literature. What can we learn from these early texts? And how have they informed Lacan's later theories about psychosis and therapies for it? Some of this research is explored in my new book 'What is Madness?' (Hamish Hamilton, October 2011). The research on eating involves clinical studies combined with a study of the place of food and diet in contemporary culture. Psychoanalytic ideas about orality, the drive and phantasy inform this, and open up some new perspectives on these much discussed issues.