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Les Moreau de Tours
Entre le besoin de vénérer et la tentation de déboulonner, l'étude des célébrités doit choisir le juste milieu. Telle est la position des historiens qui se sont attachés à la présentation des oeuvres et du destin - finalement contrarié - de la dynastie des Moreau de Tours. La « statue du Commandeur » de Jacques Joseph Moreau (1804-1884) avait été élevée par ses fils : Paul, l'aliéniste, son continuateur, et Georges, peintre de la Belle Époque et de la saga familiale. Mais la gloire de Jacques Joseph tenait aussi à sa biographie, monument de piété respectueuse qu'avait rédigé son élève Ritti. Les auteurs ont bien sûr analysé l'ouvrage Du hachisch et de l'aliénation mentale, adulé en son temps par Henri Ey et Henri Baruk. Ils ont aussi fait un travail d'historiens et révèlent beaucoup d'informations inédites dont l'étrange internement d'un A. Moreau de Tours, auteur d'un opuscule sur le maté.
Du Suicide Chez Les Enfants...
Jacques Joseph Moreau examine le phénomène tragique du suicide chez les enfants dans ce livre poignant. Il analyse les causes possibles du suicide chez les enfants, ainsi que les signes avant-coureurs à surveiller. Ce livre est une lecture essentielle pour les parents, les professeurs et tous ceux qui travaillent avec des enfants. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Schumann
After obtaining access to long-sought-after archival material about the final years of Robert Schumann, Lise Deschamps Ostwald, the author's widow, is finally able to detail the composer's last years at the mental institution in Endenich, fulfilling her husband's original intent "Schumann is a remarkable piece of work...Soberly and objectively, it unearths information that no previous Schumann researcher--in English at least--has come near duplicating."--Harold C. Schonberg, The New York Times Book Review "Peter Ostwald, a San Francisco psychiatrist who is also a trained musician, has dug deeply...and applied his professional knowledge to the fashioning of a fascinating, perceptive psychobiography of the nineteenth-century Romantic master."--Arthur Hepner, Boston Globe "Ostwald...offers new insights into one about whom the musical world has never ceased wondering."--Robert Commanday, San Francisco Chronicle --Book Jacket.
Understanding Marijuana
Marijuana is the world's most popular illicit drug, with hundreds of millions of regular users worldwide. One in three Americans has smoked pot at least once. The Drug Enforcement Agency estimates that Americans smoke five million pounds of marijuana each year. And yet marijuana remains largely misunderstood by both its advocates and its detractors. To some, marijuana is an insidious "stepping-stone" drug, enticing the inexperienced and paving the way to the inevitable abuse of harder drugs. To others, medical marijuana is an organic means of easing the discomfort or stimulating the appetite of the gravely ill. Others still view marijuana, like alcohol, as a largely harmless indulgence, dang...
Le Club des Hachichins
En 1846, Théophile Gautier publie dans La Revue des Deux Mondes un conte fantastique intitulé Le Club des hachichins. Témoignage de la curiosité pour le haschisch qui travaille alors la bohème artistique et le corps médical français, ce texte a conféré à quelques soirées d’ivresse entre amis l’image d’une société secrète de prosélytes de la drogue, voire d’incubateur de la toxicomanie moderne. La tenue avérée de réunions d’expérimentation du cannabis à l’hôtel Pimodan, entre 1845 et 1849, exclut de réduire le Club des hachichins à une pure invention littéraire. Il convient ainsi de revenir aux sources de connaissance en la matière afin d’établir les faits le concernant, et de déconstruire le mythe qui continue de l’entourer.
Obsession
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category—both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis’s graceful analysis.
Hysteria Beyond Freud
"Encyclopedically learned, up-to-date, authoritative, and altogether the best introduction to the subject that exists in any language."--Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex
