General Psychology All books

Vincent deGaulejac
Untangling Psychic Knots When the Past Acts in Me
This reflection is supported by very rich clinical material: victims of military dictatorships in South America; mothers of jihadists; people suffering from mental disorders, etc…

Orna Donath
Regretting Being a Mother Being a Mother and Being Oneself Isn’t Easy
A controversial subject: one can have children, love them, and think that one has not completely succeeded in life. A book based on a fieldwork survey. The words of liberated women.

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.

Paula Thorès Riand
Wounds of the Mother Don’t Pass on Your Own Abuse
An analysis of the mechanism that puts into place a mother/child relationship influenced by a complicated mother/daughter relationship.

Bruno Humbeeck
Against Harassment at School, at Work, and On the Net
Concrete solutions for an individual to escape the violent situation he or she is enduring, but also in the form of guidelines for prevention in the professional or educational realm.

Xavier Seron
The Lie
Based on the latest advances in research, notably in Anglophone countries. An approach that leans heavily on the neurosciences and looks at the cerebral foundation of lying.

Christophe André, François Lelord
Self-esteem Liking Oneself in Order to Live Better with Others
A format adapted to the individual: tests for self-evaluation; keys for understanding how self-esteem is formed at every age, in private as well as professional life; concrete solutions to help live in the best harmony with oneself… and with others.

Steven Laureys
Meditation and Brain
A study of the brain of one of the greatest meditators by one of the most brilliant neurologists today.

Atticus
Governing is an Ambition For Which One Must Have Talent
What is power? This wonderfully written book, powerfully argued, enhanced with contemporary examples, attempts to respond to that crucial question.

Libby Purves
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother
Are you a perfect mother or a real mother? Perfect mothers are forever smiling, their homes are immaculate, and they never raise their voices.

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. . .

Gérard Apfeldorfer
Slimming is simple and in your head
A visionary approach that very early on stressed the importance of the relationship between the body and the psyche in problems relating to weight-loss.

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.

Gilles Teneau, Géraldine Lemoine
Toxic Handlers Generators of Goodwill in Companies
Criteria to enable HR professionals and company managers to recognize, recruit, and support these unique personalities who are so valuable to organizations.

Didier Pleux
Developing Your Teen’s Concentration
Concrete advice to help adolescents concentrate. A book that addresses adolescents directly.

Alain Braconnier
Be Brave, Let’s Dream! How to Think of the Future Without Stressing Out
In line with Alain Braconnier’s books on optimism. In this book, he starts with an observation — there is a sort of general doubt experienced with regard to the future — and proposes tools to help move forward constructively into the future.

Fanny Nusbaum, Olivier Revol, Dominic Sappey-Marinier
The Philocognitives They Only Like to Think, and to Think Differently
Uncommon and compulsive thoughts, reasoning pushed to its limits, extreme sensorial and emotional sensitivity, a mind that constantly creates connections…: the high potential dusted off for the general public, but also for professionals!

Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond
A François Roustang Reader
A pivotal, essential book that enables the reader both to enter into the thinking of François Roustang, and one that carries on his work. The last book thought of and conceived by François Roustang with Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond.

Violaine-Patricia Galbert
Living with a Victim of an Attack The Trauma of Those You Love
An incomparable book: a practical guide to help the friends and families of victims of an attack to assist them in the trauma they are experiencing indirectly.

Vincent Trybou, Baptiste Brossard, Marianne Kedia
Self-harm Understanding and Treatment
The first book to offer a complete and pragmatic approach to the treatment of self-harm behavior

Jeanne Siaud-Facchin
Help Me to Live, Please!
With the energy and talent she is known for, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin proposes here less a new theory than a new practice of psychology...

Christophe André
Imperfect, free and Happy How to Live in Friendship with Yourself
This new book is the result. It radically embraces the daily practice of self-esteem and of how to live in friendship and harmony with yourself.

David Gourion, Séverine Leduc
Not Like Others, More than Others In Praise of A-typical Intelligence
An exploration of a certain personality profile and a particular form of intelligence

Lisa Letessier
Lies Between a Couple
An analysis of the psychological mechanisms of lying in a couple seen from two points of view: those that animate the one who lies, and those that cause the one to whom one lies to suffer.

Stéphanie Hahusseau
How Not to Endure Any Longer Deconditioning Oneself from One’s Past
A book for a general audience and for health-care professionals that explains how behavioral disorders, can be hiding repressed issues of abuse

Élisa Brune
Too Bad – I’m Going For It 50 Stories to Grab onto Life
How can one perceive one’s own freedom? How can one listen to oneself, others, and chance? How can we act so we’re not on automatic pilot? Fifty short essays that focus on that bit of awareness that helps us see life from a positive angle.

Antonio R. Damasio
The Strange Order of Things Life, Feeling, and the Making of Culture
A landmark book, situated between philosophy and neuroscience, in which Damasio deals with the challenging question of the origin of civilization.

Patrice Huerre, François Robine
What Our Living Spaces Say about Us
Living spaces tell a lot about their inhabitants and their psychic and social evolution. Habitats reveal the evolution of generations and of their ways of life, but they also encourage human relationships to be what they are.

Didier Pleux
The Thetis Complex To enjoy or not to enjoy life; finding the right balance
The Thetis complex, or the increasingly widespread difficulty in finding a good balance between the quite natural desire to enjoy life, and the acceptance that everything cannot be lived according to one’s desires.