Mental health lies at the heart of our inner life: emotions, stress, resilience, psychological vulnerability, but also our capacity to adapt and grow. This section explores the psychological mechanisms and scientific insights that shed light on mental balance and the challenges of the modern mind.
Can humans truly avoid communicating? This article explores how meaning emerges from behavior long before conscious intention or spoken language appear. We often think of communication as an action: speaking, writing, answering, explaining. We associate communication with intention, language, and the deliberate desire to convey something to someone else. However, ordinary experience quickly complicates this…
The story of Abdelkrim Grini invites us to move beyond the simplistic narrative of individual success. It opens a broader reflection on how certain life experiences gradually transform vulnerability, social perception, and psychic tension into symbolic and institutional function. Some life trajectories demand a multidimensional reading because they bring together migration, identity, social determinism, brain…
Relearning movement also means rebuilding confidence in the body itself. This is where psychomotor therapy has become an essential part of modern multiple sclerosis care. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is now recognized as one of the most common chronic neurological diseases affecting young adults, primarily impacting individuals during a pivotal stage of personal, family, and professional…
When vigilance becomes the norm, the world takes on the tone of threat, ultimately redefining what is perceived as real. There are forms of fatigue that do not disappear with rest. Tensions that no longer belong to an event, but to a state. Chronic stress belongs to this silent category of phenomena that gradually transform…
Why do we love? From passion to lasting connection, this article explores the three faces of love through the lens of the brain and the mind. Contemporary neuroscience seeks to elucidate love through its biological correlates: activation of dopaminergic circuits in passionate love, the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in attachment, and the involvement of…
Beyond seizures, epilepsy reshapes a person’s relationship with the body, movement, and emotions. An approach centered on bodily experience, such as psychomotor therapy, opens up new possibilities for support and care. Epilepsy is one of the oldest neurological conditions known to humankind. Paradoxically, it remains one of the least understood by the general public. This…
Regulation, attention, rumination distinct emotional styles emerge from brain dynamics. Trends rather than categories. Men and women do not experience emotions, social reactions, or intimate relationships in identical ways. Contemporary neuroscience shows that structural and functional differences in the brain are associated with distinct emotional styles. These variations do not confine either sex to a…
Once confined to cultural fringes, psychedelics are now re-emerging in leading research institutions. By temporarily reshaping brain dynamics, they may unlock new therapeutic pathways for treatment-resistant disorders. What do these substances truly reveal about the brain and psychological transformation? For nearly half a century, psychedelics were associated with cultural excesses, fringe experimentation or mystical accounts…
Between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, trauma appears as an organization, not a destiny. One the brain can reshape. In contemporary clinical practice, understanding what it truly means to heal from trauma requires moving beyond the traditional opposition between psyche and brain. Human beings are not made of ideas and words alone. They are also biological systems…
Long before modern psychology, the Stoics had already identified a key principle: suffering arises less from events than from their interpretation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is widely recognized as one of the most empirically supported psychotherapeutic approaches for emotional disorders, including anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors (Beck, 1976; Hofmann et al., 2012). Its core premise,…