[SANTÉ] Beware of books!

In case it has escaped you, mental health is the “great national cause” of this year 2025. In addition, That’s good, as the new amplifies every day the impression of living in a crazy country. Nevertheless, But alongside those who parade on our screens. However, there are a large number of good people entangled in more or less disabling neuroses and who would like to improve their experience, especially since the COVVI-19 episode did not help.

Turning to the (or) psychiatrist. Similarly, psychologist is a current reflex, in the USA, but the French is more pusillanimous, even suspicious, while the supply of care becomes scarce and the appointments are distant.

Then remain the books. In addition, Everything is in books. But not in any one.

Mental health professionals drowned in esoteric publications

This is how several mental health professionals. in research (perhaps a little narcissistic) [santé] beware books! of their own work in bookstores, found them drowned in esoteric publications like that, for example, explaining how to become “His own therapist” (very practical, that!) Thanks to a “Metaphysical decoding”. Aromatherapists. naturopaths prescribing delusional regimes and other specialists in miraculous paramedicine, several of which would deserve to be reported to Miviludes, thus close on the displays with the authentic scents, to knowledge based on scientific evidence, resulting from observations and reproducible experiences.

However. what do we find, at the top of the sales, according to the union of the French bookstore (SLF) which studied 500 stores between 2022 and 2024? The four Toltec agreements (Youth) which will allow you to discover “The teachings of Mexican shamans which originally have the traditional tradition. guardian of knowledge of Quetzalcóatl, the feathered serpent” and learn “What means to live as peaceful warriors” (Probable members of the Pastiche Pastiche “Nazism and Dialogue” of [santé] beware books! the Fire Groupe Jalins). While Boris Cyrulnik and Christophe André are respectively third and seventh.

How to be surprised when a very large bookstore in the North places its “well-being” radius on the first floor. the works of psychology in the sixth; What not only discourage climacophobes (phobic staircases.)

Beautiful player. the SLF relayed the open letter of two psychologists “How booksellers can contribute to the great national mental health cause”not without recalling that it is the publisher who chooses in which category to classify a work. So that a book on anxiety can be stored in psychology without being written by a mental health professional. It is then up to the booksellers to decide in which radius to place it.

So. to those who wonder why consult a professional when it is enough to buy a coaching book, it is prudent to find out beforehand about the author.