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il est redevable au plus cruel bourreau de son bien le plus précieux : la liberté, la liberté de l'existence extérieure, la liberté de l'esprit ; car, partout où il risquait de se reposer, de se livrer à la paresse, de s'alourdir et de perdre de son originalité en se pétrifiant prématurément dans une fonction, une profession et une forme spirituell
... See moreStefan Zweig • Nietzsche (La cosmopolite) (French Edition)
the mind was influenced by the body, the doctor had a part to play in teaching virtue.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,”
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Many mentally ill patients have suffered all their lives from a feeling that they are not, in and of themselves, good enough. They are likely to have worked hard for decades and become extremely high achievers in order to prove to someone who was skeptical about them at the outset that they are respectable and worthy after all.
Alain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

L’attention est uniquement focalisée sur ce qui a constitué un des faits les plus saillants des dernières décennies : la montée de la souffrance psychique au travail dans les catégories professionnelles jusque-là privilégiées. Une différence radicale sépare ces travailleurs de ceux qui occupent les emplois non qualifiés : le travail leur offre des
... See moreAnnie Thebaud-Mony • Les risques du travail (French Edition)
Cognified nursing—Patients
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
For a clinician, therefore, nothing is more threatening to who you think you are than a patient with a problem you cannot solve.
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Michel Foucault