Odile Jacob

Virginie Meggl? is a psychoanalyst, a registered member of the Society of Adlerian Psychoanalysis, and the founder of the association and the Internet site Psychanalyse en mouvement. She has...

L'adoption n'est jamais une histoire simple. Dans ce livre, deux psychanalystes de renom s'interessent aux enjeux psychiques de l'adoption auxquels sont confrontes les enfants adoptes et leurs...

Today, we can easily feel overwhelmed by the abundance of medical information provided by the media and, in particular, by the Internet. How can we distinguish between beliefs and knowledge in...

This book is the result of an ethnopsychiatric study that Nathan conducted on a group of AIDS-infected I'migrants at the Necker Hospital in Paris. The hospital team responsible for the I'migrants...

?Trait? des Passions is not a play. Neither is it an essay about the dangerous liaisons between art and science, nor about their unlikely encounter. It is not even the transcription of yet another...

Nathalie Zajde is a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis and a member of Professor Tobie Nathan's ethno-psychiatry team at the Georges Devereux Centre...

Sylvie Th?nault is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and at the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du 20e Si?cle. At the time of the Algerian insurrection which led...

High Voltage / Haute TensionAuthor: Marcel BoiteuxPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Oct 27, 1993Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738102247ISBN-13: 9782738102249

History Continues / L'Histoire continueAuthor: Georges DubyPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Aug 30, 1991Number of Pages: 222 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738101348ISBN-13:...

A new approach to history was developed in France in the late 1920s around the history journal Annales d?histoire ?conomique et sociale (Yearbook of Economic and Social History). The Annales School,...

This is a compilation of mainly very ancient articles and documents that aim to clarify the political activities that are the imprescriptible duty of every citizen. The common thread running through...

How Language Produces Meaning / Comment l'esprit produit du sensAuthor: Jean-Fran?ois Le NyPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Feb 17, 2005Number of Pages: 424 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Are you a perfect mother or a real mother? Perfect mothers are forever smiling, their homes are I'maculate, and they never raise their voices. Real mothers wear stained pullovers, never finish...

Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London.Inside our heads there is an amazing labour-saving device, more effective than...

Daniel Widl?cher, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was formerly head of Psychiatry at H?pital de la Piti? Salp?tri?re, in Paris. He is a member of the Psychoanalytic Association of France and a...

Anger, impatience, exasperation, irascibility: this book examines the feelings of anger we all experience ? though we often suppress them ? when faced with annoyances, accidents, lack of...

Take the time to breathe deeply. Control your stress. Stop worrying about everything. that's what you'd like to do, but you believe that, for someone with an anxious temperament like your own, this...

Stress, which is a product of our busy and agitated societies, does not necessarily occupy our private life. For many of us, stress is part of our professional life. What should we do in order to...

?Pas de culture sans tradition et sans transmission. Comment s'opere cette derniere ? Est-il sur qu'elle s'effectue seulement des anciens aux plus jeunes, fidelement, automatiquement, en bloc, comme...

Christine Tardieu is an evolutionary biologist and a palaeontologist specialising in functional and bI'mechanical morphology. A research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research...

In this essay, Georges Chapouthier proposes what he believes to be one of the fundamental laws of evolution. According to his proposal, the construction of complex organI'ms is achieved by the...

Is the brain made to think? And our flesh, is it made only to please? And what if our brain was made to animate our flesh? To tense and relax our muscles, to visit the world? We eat, it is a matter...

Hyper-Modern Eater / Le Mangeur hypermoderneAuthor: Fran?ois AscherPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Mar 24, 2005Number of Pages: 334 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

For over twenty years, Professor Stephan Eliez has been seeing parents of children with serious developmental disorders - autism, schizophrenia, psychosis, intellectual disability, rare diseases. He...

Marc Jeannerod is Professor Emeritus of physiology at Claude-Bernard University, in Lyon, and the founder of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.He...

Ideas on the Way / Des id?es qui viennentAuthor: Roger-Pol DroitPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Aug 14, 1999Number of Pages: 270 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 2738107192ISBN-13:...

If Einstein had known / Et si Einstein avait su...Author: Alain AspectPublisher: Odile JacobPublication Date: Jan 08, 2025Number of Pages: 376 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Roger-Pol Droit is the author of the I'mensely successful "101 exp?riences de philosophie quotidienne "and, more recently, of "Vivre aujourd'hui avec Socrate, S?n?que et tous les autres "(all...

Jacques Th?ze is a medical scientist specialising in HIV/AIDS research. He is the founder and director of the Cellular I'munology Unit at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, and an adviser to the World...

France is undergoing a major recession on all fronts, according to Michel Godet. And it is pointless to blame globalisation, European construction or technological change. The demographic watershed...