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.
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…
Is altruism learned, or is it innate? Neuroscience suggests that even before language, children display spontaneous helping behaviors. Born from the need to live together, the human brain thinks, feels, and acts in constant relation with others. Shaped by social life, it deciphers intentions, shares emotions, and continuously adjusts its behavior to those around it….
Picture a seven-year-old seated at a school desk. Classmates have already filled two lines in cursive; he is still wrestling with the first letter of his name. The pen trembles, the page crumples, a bead of sweat forms on his forehead. What is effortless for others becomes a struggle for him. This child is not…
Richard Branson was already leading a global business empire when he discovered that he had lived his entire life with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The British entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group has often described himself as a restless student—unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes, yet overflowing with ideas and…
Under constant pressure, the female body adapts before the psyche can speak. An invisible yet deeply embodied tension. Today’s female body carries a silent tension that does not appear in statistics but is inscribed in every muscle fiber, every heartbeat, every held breath. This is not pathology in the strict medical sense. It is a…
Once banned, psychedelics are re-emerging in medical research. They may offer solutions where conventional treatments fall short. For decades, psychedelics were pushed into the shadows branded as dangerous, unpredictable substances tied to counterculture and moral panic. However, behind the curtain of prohibition, certain compounds like LSD and psilocybin are making an unexpected comeback at the…
What if schizophrenia were not merely a disorder, but a cry the world refuses to hear? Behind diagnoses, brain scans, and technical jargon are human beings who waver — fractured consciences crossed by a pain that no word can fully express. Reality becomes too intense, meaning unravels, and even the body no longer knows where…
Between amygdala and prefrontal cortex, the brain turns alarm into controlled experience. Fear becomes play. Fear is an emotion we try to avoid in daily life, yet we eagerly seek it out in entertainment. Horror films, haunted houses, roller coasters, escape rooms — everywhere, humans put themselves face to face with imaginary dangers. But why…