Tobie Nathan

"La historia de un amor prohibido entre dos jóvenes en el Egipto de Faruq, el rey-niño.Finalista del premio Goncourt. La historia de un amor prohibido entre dos jóvenes en el Egipto de Faruq, el rey-niño. El Egipto multicultural y las décadas más convulsas del siglo xx se convierten en el escenario de un amor imposible.Zohar nace en el gueto judío de El Cairo, de una madre bruja, Esther, y de un padre ciego, Mou-ty. Zohar le debe la vida a una mujer árabe, Jihanne, la de la voz de oro, su ama de cría, que durante cuarenta días amamanta a Zohar y a su propio bebé, una niña llamada Masre-ya. Quince años más tarde, los hermanos de leche se encuentran por azar y la atracción será inmediata. Se amarán toda la vida en secreto, pues el amor entre hermanos de leche está prohibido. Masreya se converti-rá en una famosa bailarina, pretendida por su belleza. Conocerá a muchos hombres, pero su único amor será Zohar. Al mismo tiempo que el lector sigue la historia de los dos amantes, también co-noce la convulsa historia del país y un retrato singular de Egipto."--Publisher description.

Ese Pais Al Que Te Pareces

Să visezi este o șansă, un dar oferit de natură, iar să ne amintim ce am visat este o binecuvântare! Mă obișnuisem să consider visul ca pe un ghid și să le spun multor oameni ce să facă și cum să primească mesajele venite din întunericul nopții. Astfel de vise constituie baza acestei cărți. Aici veți găsi descrierea lor exactă, dar și fragmente de viață care antrenează întotdeauna asemenea vise. Veți afla cum ne întoarcem, întotdeauna cu ajutorul celui care visează, de la poveste la gânduri și de la acele gânduri la sfaturi practice, permițând astfel visului să se împlinească în viață. Această carte nu este un dicționar de simboluri și nici nu încearcă să demonstreze semnificațiile vreunui vis „tipic”, ci, mai degrabă, reprezintă o invitație de a fi atenți la detalii pentru a ne da seama ce transmite fiecare vis. Cu ajutorul acestei lucrări, cititorii vor reuși să se simtă mai familiarizați cu acest domeniu al interpretării viselor, să fie mai curioși în ceea ce privește semnificația acestora și mai deschiși față de multitudinea de posibilități pe care ni le propune viața.

Secretele viselor... și ce ascund ele

A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals. Zohar, the novel's narrator, comes into the world, but because his mother's breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasant--also believed to be possessed--who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya. Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbi's amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love. Part fantastical fable, part realistic history, A Land Like You draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan's deep knowledge of North African folk beliefs to create a glittering tapestry in which spirit possession and religious mysticism exist side by side with sober facts about the British occupation of Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Free Officers' Movement. Historical figures such as Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and King Farouk mingle with Nathan's fictional characters in this engaging story.

A Land Like You

Isabelle Stengers

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.

Doctors and Healers

Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals. Zohar, the novel's narrator, comes into the world, but because his mother's breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasant--also believed to be possessed--who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya. Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbi's amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love. Part fantastical fable, part realistic history, A Land Like You draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan's deep knowledge of North African folk beliefs to create a glittering tapestry in which spirit possession and religious mysticism exist side by side with sober facts about the British occupation of Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Free Officers' Movement. Historical figures such as Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and King Farouk mingle with Nathan's fictional characters in this riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom.

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Psychothérapie sans frontière

Vienne, 1908. Isaac Rabinovitch, étudiant en médecine, croise le chemin de Sigmund Freud. Le grand professeur, déjà célèbre, s'attache à ce jeune Candide et lui parle librement : ses amours, ses rancœurs, ses jalousies, autant de confidences qu'Isaac consigne dans un journal. Jour après jour, il y raconte les faits et gestes du maître, mais aussi la vie dans la Vienne finissante de Igoo. S'y dévoilent tout ce qui n'a pas été dit sur la psychanalyse, la vie privée de Freud, le comportement des premiers psychanalystes, les excès et les folies d'une révolution dans le siècle. Un jour de décembre 2003, ce document dont personne ne soupçonnait l'existence tombe entre les mains d'un chercheur expatrié. Mais plus le lecteur entre avec passion dans la vie de cet inconnu surgi du passé, plus les malheurs l'accablent, comme si une malédiction était attachée à ce manuscrit dont il a hérité par hasard. Croisant passé et présent, vérité et fiction, Tobie Nathan réussit là un roman d'une totale liberté et d'une audace inouïe.

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Mon patient Sigmund Freud

« Rêver est une chance, un don offert par la nature ; se souvenir de ses rêves, une bénédiction ! J’ai pris l’habitude de considérer le rêve comme un guide, et d’exposer au plus grand nombre la façon de s’approprier les conseils surgis des ténèbres. Ces rêves ont constitué la matière première de ce livre. On trouvera ici leur description précise, mais aussi les fragments de vie que charrient toujours les rêves. On y lira comment on remonte, et toujours avec l’aide du rêveur, du récit aux pensées, et de ces pensées aux conseils pratiques qui permettent au rêve de s’accomplir dans la vie. On ne trouvera ici ni dictionnaire des symboles ni de sens univoque de je ne sais quel rêve “typique”, mais une méthode et un aiguisement de l’esprit au travail du rêve. Chaque lecteur en sortira plus familier avec les rêves, plus curieux des siens et plus ouvert à la multitude de possibles que nous propose l’existence. » T. N. Psychologue hors norme et conteur de génie, Tobie Nathan nous donne ici une méthode rigoureuse pour accéder à nos rêves et des pistes pour les interpréter. Tobie Nathan est professeur de psychologie à l’université Paris-VIII. Il est le représentant le plus connu de l’ethnopsychiatrie en France. Il a notamment publié L’influence qui guérit, Psychanalyse païenne, Psychothérapies et Philtre d’amour, qui ont été de très grands succès.

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