Odile jacob feb 2007 (3 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Wars are no longer fought against armies but against civilian populations. The goal is not to break through the enemy's defences in order to impose your terms but to terrorise the population so as to destroy it.Collective violence whether in the form international or civil war produces psychological trauma among the aggressors as well as the victims, making the return to a normal life impossible if the trauma goes untreated.Françoise Sironi is an internationally recognised specialist in intentionally inflicted trauma arising from collective violence. She is the creator of a new discipline, geopolitical psychology, which aims to study and treat this new facet of international relations.In this book, she describes cases she has treated, how trauma is intentionally inflicted, and how history can take over I'dividual lives. She also explains the forms of treatment she has developed to facilitate resilience.Collective violence is a daily occurrence worldwide. This book provides the necessary elements to understand it: What are the aims of collective forms of violence What is an intentionally inflicted trauma How are entire populations terrorised The author, who has treated survivors of the Khmer Rouge and worked with trauma victims in Kosovo and Chechnya, tells a harrowing tale of violence in human relations and shows how history can wreak havoc in I'dividual lives.Françoise Sironi is a lecturer in clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Paris-VIII and teaches geopolitical psychology at the Institut d Etudes Politiques, in Paris. She is the co-founder of the Centre Primo Levi, which specialises in the treatment of torture victims, and of a rehabilitation centre for Russian veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and in Chechnya.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Joan of Arc, Martin Luther and Rimbaud had hallucinations; Goethe, Balzac, Nerval and Schumann all suffered from manic-depression; Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and Cocteau were addicted to drugs; Gauguin, Van Gogh, Hemingway and Romain Gary were suicidal: the list is long of artists and creators who were inhabited by both genius and madness. Creative exaltation often borders on melancholy, on depression and on manias, as has been amply shown by the biographies and autobiographies of many artists.Philippe Brenot examines some of these extraordinary lives in which creative elation encounters dejection and even delirI'm. His surprising conclusion is that madness is not as common among musicians and visual artists as it is among writers, many of whom have suffered from psychiatric disorders. One of the most famous and perhaps the most representative is Fernando Pessoa who found solace by creating multiple personalities with different names.Brenot then asks the question: Do the highest forms of creativity necessarily lead to madness or the risk of madness Do we admire genius in spite of its element of madness or because it is based on madness Isn't the creative artist the person who dares to push to the outer limits of sanity and is willing to pay the price By studying a number of artists from the Renaissance to our own time who have made major aesthetic breakthroughs in literature, painting and music, Brenot examines the nature of genius, how it functions, and its secrets and limits, and gives us a powerful insight into the workings of the mI'd.Philippe Brenot is a psychiatrist, sexologist and anthropologist, and the author of Le Sexe et l Amour and Inventer le Couple.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book recounts the moving life story of the French scientist Robert Dautray, the son of Russian Jewish I'migrants. Although he had to work as a farmhand in occupied France, he went on to graduate after the war from Ecole Polytechnique, where he was first in his class, and from Ecole des Mines.Robert Dautray played a major role in French history during the second half of the twentieth century. He was the only major French scientist to respond to General de Gaulle's appeal to provide France with nuclear arms that would raise the country to the rank of a major world power. Why was this choice made, and what were its positive and negative consequences These are the questions that are answered here.Dautray came from a family of Russian Jews on his father's side. His mother's family had worked in the fur trade in the Ukraine between the wars. During World War II, Dautray and his mother had to change their names and go into hiding in the southern French countryside. His father died in a death camp, as did most of Dautray's family on both sides.Dautray's love for France, where he had found refuge, and his distress at Jewish resignation made him feel that he had to labour to help his country acquire the means to defend its population. The author does not hide the dangers of civilian and military uses of nuclear energy he covers such issues as nuclear waste and the dangers of proliferation. But he also describes his dedication throughout his scientific career and particularly in his capacity as heard of the Atomic Energy Commission to fieding solutions to these dangers.In this book a great man who spent much of his life in the shadows of power gives us a fascinating first-hand account of how France acquired the means to preserve its rank. He tells us here of the hopes that nuclear energy gave rise to as well as of the risks inherent to it. Robert Dautray, a physicist, is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Technology. He is the father of the French thermonuclear bomb and the author of, most notably, Quelles énergies pour demain , published by Editions Odile Jacob.…