Jean-Marie Besson

Pain

Pain. Doctors and researchers have long sought its origin.In this fascinating essay, well-known neurophysiologist J.-M. Besson explains what pain is and how to combat it. He examines acupuncture, various placebos, and recounts the current search for an ideal analgesic, one containing the power of morphine without its negative side effects.

Boris Cyrulnik, Philippe Bouhours

Sport and Resilience

An analysis of what makes great champions, which also deals with the influence of sports on resilience, and the impact of resilience on sports.

Saïda Douki Dedieu, Hager Karray

The Veil on the Couch Hidden ramifications unveiled

The visible or hidden ramifications of the headscarf explained from the point of view of two psychiatrists who aim to reveal its importance in the status and mental health of women, from its origins to the present.

Annales de démographie historique

Epidemics and Populations

Patrick Lemoine

The Mental Health of Geniuses Geniuses of good, geniuses of evil: what’s the difference?

For each famous figure, a well-documented profile that challenges our view of them, a clinical diagnosis and, as a bonus, a final percentage of good or evil…

Sylvaine Trinh

The Japanese Model Does Not Exist

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.

Émile Biasini

About Malraux The Man Who Loved Cats

Emmanuelle Pouydebat

Animal Intelligence

A surprising enquiry into the diversity of adaptive behaviour in the animal kingdom: memory, navigation, innovation, sharing and cooperation: who knows how to do what, and what exactly is the uniqueness of human intelligence?

Didier Houssin

Let’s Take Care of Science!

Well-written, eloquent, exhibiting great depth, the book is both an ode to science and a reflection on the recent tendency toward gigantism, encouraged primarily by Big Data.

Claude-Paul Bruter

Understand Maths The 10 Fundamental Principles

What does the world look like from a mathematical perspective ? This is what Claude-Paul Bruter explains through the fundamental principles of the discipline, from the theorem of Thalès to differential forms. He explores the notions of vector and space curvature, the implicit function theorem, and the characteristic of Euler-Poincaré, the different geometries and topological surfaces. Written in part for students, this work is accessible to all those interested in mathematics. Claude-Paul Bruter is a professor at the University of Créteil

Joël Dehasse

Everything You Need to Know About Dog Psychology

A new revised and expanded edition of a seminal work on dogs!

Jean-Michel Blanquer

The School of Life

To surmount the on-going fruitless discussions on education, the author proposes a series of guidelines for an open, humanistic school system.

Serge Tisseron

The Benefits of the Image

Should sex and violence be banned on our television screens ? Is there a danger that their presence can lead to them becoming common-place, or to delinquency ? In light of this current debate, Serge Tisseron argues that as soon as we become accustomed to a type of image, and it ceases to upset us, we invent another type which will once more allow us to confuse image and reality, and thus to shiver again with fear and anxiety. In a society which is flooded with images, it is thus essential to use them as best we can, and to avoid the dangers that are inherent in them. This book aims to contribute to this end. Serge Tisseron is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, doctor of psychology and research fellow at the University of Paris-X. For the past fifteen years, he has worked on the relations that viewers have with different types of images.

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

Kevin O'Rourke

A Short History of Brexit

This book is the story of a divorce, the one between the United Kingdom and Europe with the referendum of 23 June 2016.