A partir de nombreux cas cliniques, W. Pasini passe en revue les différents types de situations qui ont le pouvoir de gâcher l'existence et propose pour chacun d'eux les stratégies de contournement ou d'ajustement les plus adaptées : pour apprendre à résister à la contagion du négatif, à couper court aux effusions narcissiques, à neutraliser la méchanceté, à répondre au stress sans angoisser...
Willy Pasini is former professor of psychiatry and medical psychology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Geneva University and currently professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Milan. He is the Director of the Training Course in Sexual Health Research organized by the Fonds Universitaire Maurice Chalumeau, in collaboration with the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research and the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research. He is author of seventeen books translated in ten languages and of various scientific publications. His teaching, searches and publications are in relationship with psychiatry, medical psychology, psychosomatic gynecology, clinical sexology, psychosomatic illnesses and psychotherapy.