In Good Health with Montaigne

�Healthy mind, healthy body �: the best method!
Cultivating your friendships, refusing to be sad, keeping quiet when you are angry, preferring to have fun rather than listening to your anxieties, learning to detect toxic personalities, getting out of addictions by understanding how habits are established…
You would think you were reading the wise recommendations of a media and iconoclastic doctor of today… However, they come from a universally admired 16th century work, written not by a specialist in well-being, but by a philosopher: the essential Essays of Montaigne, of course! Brought up to date by the psychiatrist Michel Lejoyeux, these precepts, hitherto forgotten, invite us to let go and find serenity.
Throughout these informed but playful pages, serious at heart but light in tone, Professor Lejoyeux accompanies Marie, a fictional patient, on a journey through the Essays . Together, they discover a new way to understand and heal our moods, to reli