Very dark paths had to be traveled for our culture to be able to give birth to a more humane psychiatry today, one that invites us to rethink everything. Over the course of sixty years, Boris Cyrulnik has been a living witness to what he calls "the mad history of psychiatry," ranging from the practice of criminal lobotomy, the use of mental and physical straitjackets, and the deplorable conditions endured by patients in psychiatric hospitals; then Lacan and psychoanalysis, to the tranquility brought to him by attachment theory, of which resilience is his favorite chapter, its spokesperson. This book is a testament to the long journey that has led Cyrulnik to try to explain, alleviate, and sometimes cure psychological suffering. It gave him "the pleasure of understanding and the happiness of healing wounded souls."
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