A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry. In To Sit on the Earth, pioneering ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan charts his intellectual and emotional journey, from his youthful infatuati...Daugiau...
A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to...Daugiau...
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...Daugiau...
In September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism and in this book he recounts his experiences of some of the young people he met and counselled. He...Daugiau...
‘The problem of radical Islamic youth,’ writes Tobie Nathan, ‘has not only invaded the media but it has anaesthetised our brains, invaded our waking hours and trashed our ideals. Right now might be a good time to reassess h...Daugiau...
We think we know what healers do: they build on patients irrational beliefs and treat them in a symbolic way. If they get results, its thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also th...Daugiau...
We think we know what healers do: they build on patients irrational beliefs and treat them in a symbolic way. If they get results, its thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also th...Daugiau...
Zohar is born in the Jewish ghetto of Cairo. He owes his life to his Arab caretaker, Jihanne, who nurses both him and her daughter Masreya for 40 days. Fifteen years later, Zohar and Masreya bump into each other and the attraction is immediate. Th...Daugiau...
