Seizing Life with Both Hands: Interviews with Émilie Lanez, Aldo Naouri

For forty years, Aldo Naouri has treated the body by listening, beyond its ailments, to life stories. He questions them, unravels them. He liberates. Here he recounts the key moments of his life, those that illuminate his singular clinical practice. Why did the youngest of a close-knit sibling group, united in its struggle against adversity, dedicate his life to studying the strength of family stories? Why did the child who grew up buffeted by several migrations, as an adult, focus on the vitality of the bonds that shape us? Who were his guides? What encounters left their mark on him? By reconstructing his intellectual journey, he explains his work on the family, which he consistently calls the first—the only?—school of social connection. He questions contemporary education and reflects on love. The kind that obliges because it builds us. Aldo Naouri has notably published Les Filles et leurs Mères, Éduquer ses enfants, Les Pères et les Mères, L'Enfant bien portant, and Adultères, all of which have been immensely successful.