Titres dans Psychologie

L’Idiot du village est une plongée brutale dans les contradictions d’une époque qui confond authenticité et performance, engagement et dogmatisme, liberté et dépendance.

In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin. Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII can't tell him which one.

Quando gli chiedono qual è il problema con gli adolescenti di oggi, il dottor Mauro Rolli non sa cosa rispondere. Alle diagnosi facili e alle etichette ha sempre preferito l'ascolto: leggere gli sguardi, interpretare il linguaggio del corpo. Dopo un inizio in ospedale, ha abbandonato la carriera in psichiatria, mettendone in discussione i metodi di cura. Per questo ha fondato a Roma il Centro La Ginestra, uno spazio di accoglienza e dialogo, dove i ragazzi si sentono finalmente visti. Mauro non cura dall'alto: si siede accanto a loro. Li ascolta.

From the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and The Last Word comes a story of two friends who embark on an ill-fated caving expedition—and the dark truth of what happens deep underground. After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A New York Times' ""Best Thriller of the Year"" In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she...

Professor Seymour T. Baumgartner, unter Freunden Sy, ist ein über siebzigjähriger emeritierter Phänomenologe aus Princeton, der sich dem Schreiben philosophischer Bücher und, zunehmend, seinen Jugendreminiszenzen widmet: seiner kleinbürgerlichen Herkunft aus Newark; der schwierigen Ehe der Eltern, dem Collegebesuch und einem Studienaufenthalt in Paris; schließlich der wie ein Blitz einschlagenden Liebe zur Übersetzerin und Dichterin Anna, mit der er die glücklichsten Jahre verbrachte, bevor sie vor zehn Jahren einem Badeunfall zum Opfer fiel.

Peut-on s'approprier l'objet de son amour, l'emprisonner, le tenir à sa merci ? Vincent étouffe depuis des années auprès de sa femme Laurence, grande bourgeoise fortunée, intelligente sans esprit, belle sans charme, passionnée sans tendresse. Lui est musicien sans ambition mais non sans talent. Seule sa faiblesse lui permet de supporter sa captivité. Mais un jour, sous ses doigts de pianiste, naît une mélodie qui le rend riche et célèbre dans le monde entier. Libre ? Pas pour longtemps, car la geôlière ne lâche pas sa proie.

En Seúl, una mujer asiste a clases de griego antiguo. Su profesor le pide que lea en voz alta pero ella permanece en silencio; ha perdido la capacidad del lenguaje, así como a su madre y la custodia de un hijo de ocho años. Su única esperanza de recuperar el habla es mediante el aprendizaje de una lengua muerta. Con una belleza inusitada, las voces íntimas de estos dos protagonistas se intercalan y se cruzan en un momento de desesperación. ¿Será posible que encuentren en el otro el modo de salvarse, que la oscuridad dé paso a la luz y el silencio a la palabra?

Et si une montre pouvait révéler toutes les étapes importantes de votre vie ? Une telle invention changerait-elle votre perception de l'existence ? Imaginez connaître à l'avance les moments décisifs de votre parcours, jusqu'à la façon dont votre vie se terminera. Aborderiez-vous différemment chaque instant ?Cette réflexion a captivé Tamer Saleh, l'inspirant à concevoir une montre fictive, le Chronopathe. À travers cet outil imaginaire, Saleh a transformé sa relation avec le temps et la vie.

Horror maestro Christopher Lee reads this quartet of supernatural tales, adapted from the stories of M. R. James Over a century ago, M. R. James was the provost of King's College, Cambridge. He would gather together a select group of students in his rooms every Christmas Eve, and give a...

An addictive domestic drama set during one hot Stockholm summer that marks the American debut of #1 Swedish bestselling author Moa Herngren. “The collapse of a thirty-two-year marriage is depicted with an even hand in this book, which amounts to two parallel novels: one about a woman 'feverish...

An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent.

Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror - an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian.

In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces and some of the most highly regarded works in Russian literature. With the works collected here, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales - developing a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire such modern short-story writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating.

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom - known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters - finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife. How he resolves - or further complicates - his problems makes a compelling read.

Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. Dexter County, Maine, and...

“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro...

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful...

Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years...