What if trauma is not just a psychological wound, but a persistent biological state? Discover how neuroscience and Polyvagal Theory are changing how we treat trauma. In psychoanalytic tradition, psychotrauma is generally defined as an event whose intensity exceeds an individual’s psychological capacity to process it. Freud viewed trauma as a breach of the psychic…
A crisis is frequently conceived as an individual rupture, a moment of psychological fragility or emotional collapse. However, research in psychology and organizational sciences demonstrates that it extends far beyond the intimate sphere. Institutions themselves can enter a state of crisis when their customary mechanisms are no longer sufficient to cope with urgency, uncertainty, and…
Our life history is written into our cellular matrix. By uncovering the complex social life of mitochondria within our neurons, science reveals the unbreakable bond between biological metabolism and psychic balance. Why does the mind grow foggy after a long day of deep thought, even when the body has remained perfectly still? This sensation of…
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…
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…
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…
Alzheimer’s is often associated with forgetting. Yet it also reshapes how the body acts and situates itself in space, making even movement itself an unstable reference. In the public imagination, Alzheimer’s disease is often reduced to a simple problem of memory. Forgetting names, faces, dates, or appointments is treated as the defining feature. While this…
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…