Gisèle George

My Child is Defiant What Should I Do? What Should I Say?

Marc Abélès

An Anthropologist in the French Parliament

André Klarsfeld, Frédéric Revah

The Biology of Death

Why are most living organisms condemned to die a “natural” death, even if they are in a well-protected and highly favourable environment ? Is death a "useful" biological process or does it not correspond to any natural necessity ?

Gérard Chaliand, Sophie Mousset

2000 Years of Christianities A Historical Guide

Two thousand years of Christian thought are reviewed here through some key texts of the Christian tradition...

Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw

The Commanding Heights The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World

Alain Connes, André Lichnerowicz, Marcel Paul Schützenberger

A Triangle of Thought

Alain Sauteraud

I Can't Stop Washing, Checking, Counting Living with a Compulsive-Obsessive Disorder

François Roustang

The End of Complaining

What is the most common reason for going to a therapist? Most patients say it is wanting to change. By the same token, they complain about their present lives. According to François Roustang, all forms of complaining must be dropped; patients must forget their precious egos which serve only to nurture more complaining and whining. Once patients have let go of these trappings, they will be able to remould their lives. This book offers a powerful criticism of traditional therapy and of its failure to reach its avowed goal: to help us to change. It argues for a spiritual approach to inner development. François Roustang is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and unconventional practitioner.