Consolaciones

With more than thirty years of experience in psychotherapy, the renowned French psychiatrist Christophe André knows how to identify when his patients are facing pain and desolation. To all of them, more than treatment and temporary comfort, André offered a way to comfort them and help them live with the adversities of daily life. Later, when he himself discovered that he had a serious illness, he realized the importance of affection and empathy in turning the wound into a scar. Any desolation, frustration, illness, bereavement, or simple worry is like a sudden stop in a life that was progressing smoothly. The role of comfort at this time is not to repair what has been broken, but to help face later trials and future uncertainties. In this book, André offers us a wide overview of all forms of consolation and describes the processes involved, teaching us to comfort others and to explore the dimension of self-consolation to get up after each fall.