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Jérôme Boutang, Michel DeLara
The Biases of the Mind Ways of thinking modeled by evolution
An evolutionist psychology for dummies. A fun book on a subject that concerns us all.
Antoine Guédeney
A Baby Doesn’t Wait Identifying, Treating, and Preventing Distress in the Very Young Child
The adventure of The Alarm Distress Baby Scale, which has become a formidable tool for prevention in perinatal and early childhood care.
Fanny Nusbaum
The Secret of High Performers
Psychology and neuroscience as scientific support for a new understanding of high performance, by an author who is both a clinician and a researcher.
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.
Christian Vigouroux
The Society of Scorn
The work of a great connoisseur of the arcana of the French senior administration and of French society.
Boris Cyrulnik
In the Time of Souls and Seasons Psychology and Ecology
From the body to language, including the climate, culture, and, of course, the family, an astute description of the way in which our different environments (“ecology” in the broadest sense of the term) determine, from childhood, the person we are to become.
Boris Cyrulnik
At Night, I Would Write Suns
Alongside Genet, Tolstoy, Gary, and many others, a perceptive and sensitive exploration of resilience through a few great works in our literary canon: how writing can sometimes save a life, how words enable one to escape, to flee reality, or to create oneself, to create a world, one’s own, or to fill a void, or to tell one’s story. . .