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.
Between brain plasticity and unconscious repetition, anxiety is embedded in reinforcing neural circuits. In a world saturated with information, social pressure, and simultaneous demands, anxiety no longer appears as a purely individual symptom. It reflects an era and a neural architecture constantly forced to adapt. Each brain, exposed to uninterrupted streams of stimulation, becomes the…
Entre cortex et organes internes, un dialogue constant s’organise. L’émotion devient une régulation physiologique. For decades, neuroscience research has explored the boundaries between the brain and the body. How do thoughts, emotions, or stress influence heart rate, breathing, or digestion? While it was already known that certain brain regions, such as the hypothalamus or the…
How do our earliest emotional and sensory experiences shape not only the developing brain but also the deepest layers of our subjectivity, influencing our capacity to feel, think and create? Early childhood does more than shape memories, it builds the architecture of the brain itself.Through emotional interactions and neural development, it lays the foundations of…
Addiction is often framed as a behavioral or cognitive disorder.Yet it also reflects a deeper disruption of bodily regulation, affecting the interplay between sensation, emotion, and control. Addiction is often described as a loss of control, a slow erosion of the individual’s capacity to choose. However, long before the mind recognizes what is happening, the…
Autism manifests in many different ways. While social challenges and sensory sensitivity are frequently highlighted, another dimension plays a central role: difficulty adapting to change. Many autistic individuals struggle to shift from one activity to another, to adjust their strategies when the environment evolves or to modify their responses in the face of the unexpected….
In the 19th century, opium was more than a commodity, it was a weapon.By embedding addiction within an empire, it turned a global power into a vulnerable society, exposing the links between dependency and domination. The story of opium does not begin in the smoky dens of Canton but far earlier, in the fertile valleys…
What if thinking alone could help the body move again? By translating intention into action, BCIs reactivate dormant neural circuits. Every year, more than sixteen million people around the world experience a stroke. For almost one third of them, the consequences are lasting: paralysis, language impairments, memory difficulties, or depression. Although traditional rehabilitation such as…
As a mental-health professional and an engaged citizen, I express my firm and unequivocal opposition to Amendment 159 of the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS). This amendment jeopardizes the diversity of psychotherapeutic approaches and specifically targets psychoanalysis a discipline that, for more than a century, has demonstrated its unique ability to understand, transform, and…
The language of the body comes before words. In early childhood, gestures, rhythms, and touch create a lasting emotional memory that structures the social brain. Attachment begins long before speech emerges. It is woven through daily bodily exchanges, a shared gaze, a hand resting on the skin, a breathing rhythm that slowly synchronizes over the…
Schizophrenia is often described as a disorder of hallucinations and delusions. However, these striking symptoms represent only the visible part of the condition. The illness also affects cognition, motivation, emotional engagement, and social functioning. Affecting roughly one in one hundred people, it remains one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Since the 1950s, available…