Odile Jacob

Dani?le Brun is most notably the author of "La Passion dans l'amiti?" and "Les Enfants perturbateurs". She is a psychoanalyst and a professor of psychopathology, at the University of Paris-VIiedenis...

Being a mother is an immense joy, but it is also a ""risky"" situation that exposes women to intense physical and emotional fatigue: high level of responsibility 24 hours a day and 365 days a year,...

Understanding the nature of the ties between a mother and her daughter is an essential step for the latter's future. Maternal love is fI'mly anchored in our mieds as practically sacrosanct. Yet some...

On April 11, 1770, Leopold Mozart and his son Wolfgang arrived in Rome and attended mass at the Sistine Chapel. There they heard Allegri's famous Miserere, which was so highly esteemed that the...

Multiple sclerosis still mystifies. The disease strikes young adults primarily in the northern hemisphere. In France, 50,000 people suffer from MS. Ren? Marteau reviews the most recent fiedings of MS...

Laissez-vous convier a un voyage aux confins de trois territoires, a la fois mysterieux et fascinants: la musique, l emotion et la folie. Vous y aborderez les relations etroites qui lient musique et...

Pierre Lemarquis, a neurologist, neurophysiologist and neuropharmacologist, is a former intern and head of clinic at Marseille's teaching hospital. A recipient of the prestigious French Hospital Gold...

How does a traditionally-educated Catholic become a committed doctor? How do the resistance, the fight for abortion and against all forms of intolerance, intimate relationships with world leaders...

Tamara Morar gives us here a personal account of how she "cured" her son Paul of autism.The obstacles that Morar had to overcome were numerous: an allegedly incurable disease, pessimistic doctors and...

Christophe Paradas is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.Reflections on art and artistic creativity played an important role in Freud's elaboration of psychoanalytic theory. Such reflections resulted...

The media are capable of altering our health. Evidence to this effect abounds. But how and why? Today, we are constantly informed, even inundated, with everything that is happening on the planet, and...

How many sick people know that the drugs which are prescribed by their doctors are sometimes totally devoid of active principles? These inactive products - placebos - which have no proven...

In 1812, when Napoleon opened hostilities against Tsar Alexander I, one of his ministers declared: "The Emperor is mad; he'll toss us in the air, ass first, and all this will end in a frightful...

Olivier Bouvet de la Maisonneuve is a psychiatrist working at H?pital Sainte-Anne, in Paris, and a psychoanalyst. Psychoanalysis has derived some of its key concepts from Greek myths (Oedipus,...

National Projector: Film and the Nation / La Projection nationale: Cin?ma et nationAuthor: Jean-Michel FrodonPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Apr 17, 1998Number of Pages: 250 pagesBinding:...

The work of Stanislas Dehaene in cognitive psychology has shown that all human beings have innate numerical skills. Natural mathematics is unlike formal mathematics in that it is analogical (everyone...

Neo-Indians / Les N?o-Indiens: Une religion du IIIe mill?naireAuthor: Jacques GalinierPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jun 08, 2006Number of Pages: 334 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Antoine Garapon, the author of notably "Le Gardien des promesses" (1996) and "Bien juger" (2001), is the director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ) and a member of the editorial...

Pierre Buser is a neurobiologist, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and an emeritus professor at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University. He is the author or co-author of "Cerveau de soi, cerveau...

A fundamental particle, the neutrino, serves as the author's starting point for a radically new explanation of the current state of particle physics as a whole.Neutrinos play a basic role because...

"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...

Our knowledge of newborns used to be based on ungrounded theories and vague observations, and it seemed that babies developed almost magically from one month to the next. Those days are over. Not...

Night Music / Musiques de nuitAuthor: Michel SchneiderPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 03, 2001Number of Pages: 360 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 273810942XISBN-13:...

Uneasiness, extreme fatigue, reduced performance, dejection, insomnia, loss of enjoyment: these are some of the most frequent signs of depression. When left untreated depression plays havoc with its...

Adoption and medically assisted procreations reflect the same suffering and ask the same questions. In both cases, the institution, in the name of a mistaken conception of filiation, weighs upon the...

Mad cow' disease, genetically modified vegetables, water with nitrates, eggs with salmonella, cheese with listeria... To what extent can our fears in relation to what we eat be justified? Are the...

Jean Piaget is best known for his contributions to the fields of psychology, epistemology and philosophy. He is less known for his work on education. Of the more than sixty books he published, only...

Of Good Government: The Hidden Truths of History and the News / Du bon gouvernement: Des v?rit?s cach?es de l'histoire et de l'actualit?Author: Jean-Claude BarreauPublisher: Odile JacobPublication...

Of Indifference: An Essay on the Banalization of Good and Evil / De l'indiff?rence: Essai sur la banalisation du bien et du malAuthor: Christian DelacampagnePublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date:...

Omnivorous Humans / L'Homnivore: Sur les fondamentaux de la biologie et de la philosophieAuthor: Claude FischlerPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Sep 26, 1990Number of Pages: 456 pagesBinding:...