Roger Vigouroux

Another day, another patient Memoirs of a Neuropsychiatrist

The author has chosen an unconventional tone and format to describe the experiences of a doctor specialized in mental illness, as well as those of his patients. Exceptional access to day-to-day psychiatric consultations, which is rarely possible to achieve.

Boris Cyrulnik, Patrick Lemoine

The Crazy History of Crazy Ideas in Psychiatry

A lively and illuminating perspective on the history of a discipline that is still young. Unusual reflections on the future of treatment for psychiatric illness, based on past mistakes. Suggestions for helping the near future to become the Golden Age of psychiatry.

Benno Müller-Hill

Nazi Science, the Science of Death The Extermination of Jews, Gypsies and the Mentally Ill, from 1933 to 1945.

Patrick Lemoine

Right of Sanctuaries

This book is a detailed reconstruction of daily life at the Asile du Vinatier, a psychiatric institution near Lyon, from 1937 to 1945, a period marked by the earliest institutional attempts to treat mental illness. It was also the time when the blindness of administrative rules, the meanness of politicians, and the indifference of society at large resulted in a collective drama: the gradual extermination of mental patients. Patrick Lemoine is a psychiatrist and department head at the Hôpital du Vinatier in Lyon.

Fabrice Jollant

The Suicide Understanding and Helping Those at Risk

Understanding the causes of fragility, in order to identify vulnerability to suicidal behaivours