In order to improve the management of children before the age of two, neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik has just created, in Caen, in Calvados, an early childhood institute. It takes the form of monthly conferences open to nursery staff and maternal assistants. The neuropsychiatrist recalls the importance of the "preverbal" childhood period. Aurélie Puyoo, assistant director of crèche, underlines what the approach has to enrich for professionals.
Boris Cyrulnik, a neuropsychiatrist, is filmed at his home, in his home in Seyne sur Mer, in the Var. He explains why he likes the place, comments on the decoration and presents the office where he works and writes his books, without a computer, with paper and pen.
In an interview with Catherine Ceylac, neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, whose latest book "Autobiography of a scarecrow" has just been published, talks about the effects of the omnipresence of technology in our western societies on the psychic development of children. Alone with machines, they lack social interactions and risk evolving in a "world without others", which is, he recalls, "the definition of narcissistic perversion".
Interview with Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist and ethologist, on a cliff on the island of Porquerolles, in the Var. He dialogues with the gulls by imitating their cries and then translates them. "We realize that everyone shouts from their place for or towards another, and that it structures the group".
Catherine Ceylac speaks with psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik who has just published "The Whisper of Ghosts". She evokes her strong presence in the media, which some may blame her, and even uses the expression "4x4 of communication". The scientist tells him that knowledge is made to be transmitted and prefers to speak of sharing rather than "popularization".
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist, whose latest book is entitled "A wonderful misfortune", is questioned by Catherine Ceylac. He explains that to be a psychotherapist is to be a "psychopompeur", that is to say to draw his knowledge from what his "authentic" patients tell him, the most intelligent and exciting, unlike what he calls "cultural clones".
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist, who has just published "Autobiography of a scarecrow", is questioned by Catherine Ceylac about his arrest by the Gestapo, when he was a child, during the Second World War. He talks about the repression of Jewish children and how he managed to escape, in Bordeaux, to escape death.
Valérie Expert speaks with Boris Cyrulnik, a neuropsychiatrist, who publishes "A wonderful misfortune". He denounces the "shrink misery" which considers "that at 3 years everything is played, at 6 years everything is ruined". For him, a painful ordeal lived in childhood does not necessarily prevent "becoming human" when one manages to overcome the trauma.
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist, explains to Catherine Ceylac, on the occasion of the release of his book "Autobiography of a scarecrow", why, for a long time, he could not talk about what happened to him, as a child, during the Second World War. Confronted with disbelief or "sadistic gluttony", he says he was forced to remain silent for 40 years.
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist, guest of the television news, is asked about the political consequences of the coronavirus health crisis. It outlines three possible solutions: the return of hyperconsumption and hypermobility and, with them, the likely arrival of a new virus in three years, the election of a "savior", or the choice of a cultural change that could lead to social improvement. His words are illustrated by images of medical staff in a hospital and people on their balconies applauding the caregivers.
Interviewed by Bernard Pivot, psychiatrist and ethologist Boris Cyrulnik briefly defines the concept of resilience, before revealing what motivated him to take an interest in it: his own childhood injuries.
Boris Cyrulnik, interviewed by Georges Pernoud, is very happy to live in Toulon and to have, without doubt, the most beautiful point of the region, without chauvinism. The city has changed. It was a very beautiful city before the war and it is now a city that is getting better and better.
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