Used Book – La Vie en désordre, Marcel Rufo

We envy adolescents for their youth, so full of promise, but we tend to forget that this period of life is painful, synonymous with loss: loss of the magical thinking of childhood, of illusions about oneself and about the world. This is why adolescence is a fertile ground for the emergence of psychological disorders that express the inherent fragility of this age, self-doubt, and doubt about one's ability to please, to love, and to be loved. But many of these disorders, sometimes spectacular, are in fact transient. It is the psychiatrist's responsibility to accompany this maturation process that is adolescence. Both a book of memories and a reflection on the practice of his profession, La Vie en désordre is a plea for a humanist, inventive, and optimistic psychiatry, far from dogma.