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Sophie Tran Van, Emmanuel Goldenberg

How My Shrink Saved My Life A Patient and Her Therapist Open Up

A true story, that of encountering, and curing, a young patient at her wits end who staked everything on a final treatment with a therapist.

Alain Grandjean, Nicolas Dufrêne

An Ecological Currency to Save the Planet

The economy is being shaped to adapt to the ecological crisis; what is the scope for action? An original solution to save the planet: the ex nihilo creation of a “green currency.”

Parents often feel overwhelmed by their children's omnipotence. It is easy enough to say that parents must recover their authority and lay down rules, but what are the practical ways of going about this in everyday life?

Jacques Saglier, Joseph Gligorov

Breast Cancer Knowledge Empowers

A new, completely revised and expanded edition of a book that has become a reference work for thousands of patients

Boris Cyrulnik

At Night, I Would Write Suns

Alongside Genet, Tolstoy, Gary, and many others, a perceptive and sensitive exploration of resilience through a few great works in our literary canon: how writing can sometimes save a life, how words enable one to escape, to flee reality, or to create oneself, to create a world, one’s own, or to fill a void, or to tell one’s story. . .

Steve Masson

Understanding the Brain to Better Learn and Teach Neuroeducation

Richly illustrated, including many examples of applied pedagogy; finally, a book in neuro-education that combines scientific rigor and concrete, practical applications. Learning and teaching: the 7 principles that work at school, at work, and at home.

Gerald M. Edelman

Wider than the Sky

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease and you beside, wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson in the mid-nineteenth century. The fundamental mechanisms governing mental life are now the subject of scientific study. In this book, Gerald Edelman examines a major aspect of the mind - consciousness. How can the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? A scientific explanation of consciousness must take into account the causal connections between these two domains. Such a theory must show how the neural bases of consciousness appeared during the evolutionary process and how certain animals developed consciousness. These are some of the key issues that Gerald Edelman examines here. He shows that consciousness cannot be located in a specific area of the brain, because it is a process linked to how the brain functions as a whole, to its wealth of connections and to its great complexity. The brain, he argues, is not a kind of computer. Edelman is regarded as one of the greatest theoreticians of the brain, and his notion of consciousness dominates all discussions on the subject among the international scientific community. This book offers the most accessible version of his theories that is available today. The winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Gerald Edelman heads the Institute for Neurosciences, in La Jolla, California.

France Schott-Billmann

The Need to Dance

Village dances, the craze for Oriental and African dancing, the large number of rave parties - over the past few years, the joy of dancing seems to have been rediscovered in France. What does the desire to dance hide?

André Green

The Chain of Eros

Sexuality is no longer what it was when Freud elaborated his theory of its psychic functioning. His successors have either given it less importance or a completely different status. André Green has undertaken in this book a real re-founding. Sexuality, seen from a psychoanalistic point of view, is what he calls "an erotic chain", organized according to different steps (impulse, desire, fantasies, erotic language, etc.). For him, the importance it is not so much to consider each of these steps separately but to specify at which link of the chain the analyst himself stands. André Green, is a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist.

Nicole Jeammet

Between You and Me

Giving and receiving: how to establish trust in affective relations?

Didier Pleux

The Freudian Couch Revolution

Existential psychotherapy: a new approach grounded in the power of consciousness

Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

How to Govern a People-King? A New Treatise on the Art of Politics

Pierre-Henri Tavoillot offers us a voyage through time and space: to the great authors of the past, to the heart of the world’s political experiments, but also among the latest technological innovations.

Renaissance of America (The) - foreword to Pascal Lamy

Renaud Lassus

The Renaissance of America foreword to Pascal Lamy

An essential contribution for an understanding of what is at stake in the 2020 presidential election.

Alain Berthoz, Fabienne Verdier

Thought in Action A Painting Session Between Art and Science

An original discussion around the artistic process, combining philosophy and history of art, brain physiology and mathematics.

Pierre Lembeye

We Are All Dependent

Sixth Sense (The) - A Neurophysiological Enquiry

André Holley

The Sixth Sense A Neurophysiological Enquiry

The outside world is not the only source of sense stimuli; other, internal types of sensibility can stimulate the brain

Guy Groux, Michel Noblecourt, Jean-Dominique Simonpoli

Social Dialogue in France

Never has the potential for social dialogue been greater. Never has the law given so much autonomy to social partners...

Paula Thorès Riand

Wounds of the Mother Don’t Pass on Your Own Abuse

An analysis of the mechanism that puts into place a mother/child relationship influenced by a complicated mother/daughter relationship.

Ilana Reiss-Schimmel

Psychoanalysis and Money

Dominique Barbier

Hyper-narcissism and ordinary psychosis

A comprehensive overview of the different facets of narcissism.

Dan Sperber

The Infectiousness of Ideas

Where do our ideas come from ? Some, just from ourselves, or at least we believe so, but the majority come from others which we then pass on in our turn. The age-old philosophical question on the origins of ideas is analysed here in relation to their mode of dissemination. In his search for the natural element of culture, Dan Sperber presents in this book an epidemiology of ideas which describes how they spread by passing from one person to another, undergoing transformations which are in the same category as mutations. He also investigates how these ideas establish themselves in the long-term by occupying our mental world without our conscious knowledge, which allows us to participate in our culture. Dan Sperber, an anthropologist, is the research director of CNRS.