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Marylène Patou-Mathis

The Savage and Prehistory, the White Man’s Mirror

Throughout history how has Western man regarded human beings that differ from him?

Frank Dangeard

Crisis Decision-Making in Businesses 12 Tales of Governance

Based on his extensive experience as a manager and administrator, and illustrated with numerous examples from recent business history...

Danièle Brun

Mothers in Capital Letters

The image in question is not so much a representation of the Mother in Majesty with her child...

Tobie Nathan

The New Interpretation of Dreams

“A dream that has not been interpreted is like an unread letter,” according to one of the treatises of the Talmud. For a long time, it was thought that psychoanalysts were dream specialists, and Freud himself regarded The Interpretation of Dreams as his seminal work. But Freud never revised the general principles that he defined in 1899, and no psychoanalyst since then has made new propositions to the Freudian postulates concerning methods of dream interpretation. Today, the majority of researchers working on dreams are neurophysiologists, who completely exclude any notion of interpretation. So the issue remains intact and is far from being resolved. While conceding that dreams constitute a physiological reality, Tobie Nathan argues that they cannot be regarded as the hallucinatory fulfilment of the dreamer's repressed wishes, as is generally claimed. So do dreams serve any purpose? Do dreams have any meaning? Nathan returns to these age-old questions and examines them with the audacity and originality that he is known for. In the process, he draws on recent findings in the neurosciences, on the teachings of psychoanalysis — as well as on the lessons of the Talmud.

Henri Atlan

Postgenomic Life, or What is Self-organisation?)

We spontaneously associate the idea of organisation with that of human production: the fruit of artistic endeavour or rational planning...

Étienne Klein

The Small Bang of Nanotechnologies

Nanotechnologies no longer concern just the manipulation of matter, one atom at a time: they now incorporate all the techniques that allow the manufacture of tiny objects with a precision equal to one billionth of a metre...

Christophe André

Therapists’ Secrets: What You Must Know to Feel Fine

In this book, a number of renowned psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists draw on their vast experience to share with the reader the numerous methods they apply to themselves, in order to feel better.