1. The Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis) claims French mind–healers have become ‘fossilised‘ in the ‘marginal, discredited‘ teachings of Sigmund Freud.

2. Split into two categories, «Tea and Trade» and «Lunch and Lectures», the professional program includes speakers from publishing houses such as Hachette Livre International, and organizations such as Literature Across Frontiers.

3. The ‘Lacaniens‘, writes Livre Noir contributor Filip Buekens, are ‘incoherent to any reasonable human being‘. Swiss psychiatrist Jean–Jacques Dglon even accuses psychoanalysts of being guilty of 10,000 deaths because, in wanting to promote therapy, they ‘for years stood in the way of the development of substitute drugs‘. Editor Catherine Meyer claims she wants the book to serve as a wake–up call for France, the ‘world champion in anti–depressant consumption‘. Meyer claims that Freudian techniques have retained credibility in France because the generation of 1'68 has raised them to the level of an ‘untouchable dogma‘. It is time to ‘open our minds and stop blaming our parents,‘ she writes.