Boris Cyrulnik

Child Suicide Attachment and Society

The number of child and teenage suicides is greatly underestimated, warns Boris Cyrulnik, in a report commissioned by the French government

Olivia Hagimont

The Family Dinner or How to Survive Your Loving, Neurotic Family

Family dinners are the perfect opportunity to show a rogue’s gallery of characters with strong personalities, who will, over the course of a meal, offend and wound each other, but come to love each other once again. Family get-togethers, where neuroses take centre stage. Olivia Hagimont’s sense of humour works as a magnifying glass, allowing us to see our own idiosyncrasies in order to be able to put things that hurt us into better perspective, and to start letting go of past events.

Francine Klein

Learn to Think, Learn to Love

Is everything determined at birth and in our first months of life? Why is it that certain children experience difficulty in learning to walk and to speak? Why them and not others? By describing the mechanics of learning and intellectual development, Francis Klein emphasizes the role of affection and relational factors on early development. She reminds us that to learn to think pre-supposes pleasure and liberty. Francine Klein is a children's psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst.

François Roustang

The End of Complaining

What is the most common reason for going to a therapist? Most patients say it is wanting to change. By the same token, they complain about their present lives. According to François Roustang, all forms of complaining must be dropped; patients must forget their precious egos which serve only to nurture more complaining and whining. Once patients have let go of these trappings, they will be able to remould their lives. This book offers a powerful criticism of traditional therapy and of its failure to reach its avowed goal: to help us to change. It argues for a spiritual approach to inner development. François Roustang is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and unconventional practitioner.

Nathalie Zajde

Children of Survivors

Caroline Eliacheff

À corps et à cris How to psychoanalyse young children

Oliver, Zoe, Mathias and the others are children of grief. They barely speak. They have faced innumerable trials: unknown mothers, abandon, adoption, even separation from imprisoned parents. Traditional medicine allows them to survive, but cannot teach them to live. Is there a solution? This book attempts to reach these neglected children and, through words, to heal. Caroline Eliacheff is a psychoanalyst who counts among her published works Les Indomptables, written in conjunction with Ginette Raimbault.

Manuella Rebotini

Totemic Drums A Short History of Rock Music and Some Psychoanalytic Considerations

Contemporary American popular history, revisited by rock music and psychoanalysis

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