Maurice Corcos

An Anorexia Primer

A dictionary to approach the many facets of anorexia. The psychoanalytical approach enables an understanding of the multiple facets of anorexia

Saïda Douki Dedieu, Hager Karray

The Veil on the Couch Hidden ramifications unveiled

The visible or hidden ramifications of the headscarf explained from the point of view of two psychiatrists who aim to reveal its importance in the status and mental health of women, from its origins to the present.

Serge Stoléru

The Portable Psychoanalyst A New Approach for Self-Knowledge

A both philosophical and psychoanalytical justification of a desire for self-knowledge. A concrete and lively text due to the presentation of real cases.

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.

Danièle Brun

The Imprint of the Familial Body Memory of Scars

A new approach to a better understanding of what occurs unconsciously in the family. A work that explores the ties that connect members of a family.

Boris Cyrulnik

Ugly Ducklings

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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

Alain Ehrenberg

The Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism

The book’s very stimulating thesis: the twenty-first century will be the century of the brain and the neurosciences, which are already playing the role that psychoanalysis played in the twentieth century.

Daniel Widlöcher, Antoine Périer, Nicolas Georgieff

Around Daniel Widlöcher: Psychoanalytical Conversations with Antoine Périer and Nicolas Georgieff

These conversations with Daniel Widlöcher are of particular importance: he is one of the last great figures in French psychoanalysis of the post-war generation.

Liliane Zylbersztejn

Itinerary of an Abused Child Hate, love, and life

A powerful testimony enriched with a reflection on children’s psychological defences against abuse. Seen as a positive psychological process, this approach to hatred — an unusual concept — can light the path of many people who consider themselves affected.

Robert Neuburger

Dysfunctional Families: Overcoming Family Trauma

Dominique Barbier

A Factory of Perversity

Catherine Morin

Man and his brain Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

An assessment of the relationship between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. A synthesis that aids understanding of the possible complementarity between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, of the specificity of each approach, and the value of sharing knowledge about the brain.

Alain Braconnier

How to Listen and to Be Heard

The right questions to ask ourselves and the qualities to develop in order to be heard. Feeling like we are being heard contributes to our psychological equilibrium, as well as to our self-confidence. This book proposes a method for being heard properly. A reader-friendly book that offers practical advice and recognizes the true value of dialogue in human relations.

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.

Tobie Nathan

The Secrets of your Dreams

Each of these case studies is illustrated by Eloise Oddos, making the book an attractive gift. A true practical guide of the interpretation of dreams, it is concrete, precise, practicable, written by one of the most inventive French authors. This book renews our understanding of dreams and puts the study back in its deserved place in our "rationalised" lives.