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Denis Jeambar

A State Secret

From a resounding victory, full of promises, to a surprise, humiliating defeat, the presidency of Jacques Chirac didn’t manage to astonish the French nation or the world. This book lifts the lid on the plotting and secrets of the presidency. Denis Jeambar is the editor of the Express.

René Frydman, Muriel Flis-Trèves

Dying before living ?

Miscarriages, medical terminations of a pregnancy, embryonic destructions, perinatal mortalities… these babies born prematurely don’t even have the chance to be properly recognised as a part of this world, leaving their parents to solitude, grief and even a sense of guilt. Isn’t it natural that the parents, even if it is painful for them, want to see their child, to name him, to register his existence ? That they need to follow the rituals of bereavement and record the child in the family history ? Doctors, midwives, anthropologists, philosophers, and psychoanalysts ask themselves what their role is when faced with this kind of sudden death, which has the capacity to affect so intensely other lives : how, they ask, can we help these patients along the road of their bereavement ?

Libby Purves

How Not to be a Perfect Family

Perfect families, as we know, live in perfectly kept houses, have admirably well-organized vacations...

Darian Leader

What are you thinking about ? The incertitudes of love

What does it mean to be a woman ? What is the point of jealousy ? What is it that can lead a man to weakness ? And why do we so often end up asking one another : "What are you thinking about ?" Through little insights, both alert and educated, taking their sources from Freud and Lacan as well as from the cinema, literature and his own experience as a psychoanalyst, Darian Leader paints a subtle, enriching and dedramatized portrait of the sentimental motivations of the two sexes. Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst. He practices and teaches in London and in Leeds. He also regularly collaborates with the French Red Cross.