""In
The Voyage of Hector, the French writer François LeLord creates a
delicate allegory about our own thirst for happiness and the search we
undertake in our whole life to find it. Hector, a young psychiatrist, decides to embark on a long trip around the world. Your goal is to meet people from different cultures and social situations to perform a field research on happiness. From
the responses it receives to apparently simple questions like "Are you
happy?" Or "What is happiness to you?" He elaborates hypotheses which
are carefully recorded and turned into lessons shared with readers."Outside, the day went great, but Hector was a little sad. He stopped to clean up the china in his bag. I did not want to risk breaking it. Between the two plates, found a small slip of paper. It was written: 20-13-10. Hector quickly pulled his notebook and read:Lesson 20: Happiness depends on the mode of seeing things.Lesson 13: Happiness is feeling useful to others.Lesson 10: Happiness is working on what we like.Hector thought these were great lessons. At least for him. "Among
reports of an initiatory journey and tale for adults, we have the
tender gaze and rant about our doubts and anxieties, a recipe for
publishing success has won over millions of readers around the world. The Journey of Hector was the fourteenth best-selling fiction book in 2005, according to the magazine Publishing Trends. It sold over 600,000 copies in France, Germany, topped the bestseller list for a year and a half. It has been translated in eighteen countries and is being adapted for film. The sequence of this book, Hector and the secrets of love, will be published soon by Sa Publisher.AuthorLeLord François (France, 1953) is a psychiatrist and writer. Author
of several successful books, translated into world as Hector's journey
in search of happiness (Sa Editor), 14th best-selling fiction book in
2005 on the planet, and Hector and the secrets of love (Sa Publisher ). The new journey with Hector, LeLord closes the trilogy dedicated to his alter-ego: the psychiatrist Hector. More than one million copies of these adventures have been sold worldwide - including Brazil.Read an excerptHector is not happyThere once was a young psychiatrist named Hector that he was not there very pleased with.Hector
was not really happy, but still seemed a psychiatrist truth:
round-rimmed glasses that gave him an air of intellectual, knew how to
listen to people who are thinking what they say, sometimes even did some
"hmmm ... hmmm ... "and had a mustache when he reflected that bends a lot.His
office looked like a real psychiatrist, had a couch-like old couch (it
was his mother who gave him when he settled), some replicas of Egyptian
statues, or Hindu, and a bookshelf full of books difficult to read as complicated, moreover, that he never read a few.Many people wanted to make an appointment with Hector, and not just because he looked like a real psychiatrist. Hector also had a secret, the secret of good doctors, and that is not learned in college: he truly cared for people.It is not easy to go to a psychiatrist for the first time. Everyone knows that he is familiar with these things, but still gives a little afraid that he'll think we're crazy. Or if that does not seem serious enough and that he sent for another doctor. But
as the query has been marked, and the time has come, so we decided to
tell those weird quirks, those weird thoughts that go through your head,
and mind, but we never told anyone, the real fears or sorrows too large to prevent them from living life. It also afraid of not knowing how to tell the story straight and be a bit boring. Sometimes, it is true, the psychiatrist does seem bored or tired. Those who are not accustomed to doubt that he has actually heard something of what we said.But
Hector was somewhat different: he looked at people when they told their
stories, nodded to encourage them from time to time made her "umm ...
umm ...", poking his mustache, and sometimes even say, "Wait rather, explain it better, do not quite understand. " Apart
from the day he was really tired, people felt that Hector heard what
they said and even thought he found interesting the stories they told.Then
came back again, marked further consultation, recommended to friends,
he spoke to his doctor, who, in turn, showed Hector to other patients. And so Hector soon began to spend long hours listening to people and pay many taxes, although he did not charge very high. (His mother always said I should charge a bit more, but it was harder for him).Charged less, for example, that Madame Irina - was known by that name - a very famous psychic. She was, in fact, who told him:- Doctor, should increase its price.- Someone once told me - answered Hector.- I am speaking as a mother, doctor. I see what is good for you.- By the way, how's it going? Is now getting a better look?It had come to see that Madame Irina Hector because he could no longer see the future right. He had suffered a great sorrow for a man who is out and since then no longer saw, really, I mean, I could not see as it should. Still, as she was smart, he could still say interesting things to their customers. But he was also a little honest, I was upset not to see as a way before. Then Hector has prescribed some pills for people who are very sad and she was now seeing a little better.Hector was not sure what to think of it.So Hector was a hit because people knew how to listen. But not only that. He also knew the tricks of the trade.First, know how to answer a question with another question. For
example, when someone asked him: "You think I'm going to do well,
Doctor?" He replied: "What do you mean 'do well' to you?". On its face, it forced people to reflect and Hector was so alone helped them find their own means to get away.Then he knew the drugs. For
a psychiatrist, until it is simple, because there are only four major
types of drugs being prescribed, the pills for those who are very sad -
antidepressants - the tablets for those who feel very afraid -
anxiolytics - the tablets for those who have really
bizarre ideas or who hears voices - neuroleptics - and then the tablets
that serve to avoid the ups and downs too high or too low - the
regulators of humor. Well,
it's a little more complicated than that because for each of these
kinds of medication for at least ten different brands of pills, each
with a name more weird than the other, and the psychiatrist needs to
know the one that best suits each case. The remedies are a bit like the desserts: not everyone appreciates the same.Finally,
when the drugs were not enough, or when people simply did not need them
anymore, Hector knew another way to help them: psychotherapy. It is a complicated word, but simply means that you can help people listening to them and talking to them. But beware! It is not the same thing as conversation to talk normally, but after a very special method. As in the case of tablets, there are different types of psychotherapy and some were invented by people who have died long ago. Hector learned psychotherapy invented by people still alive, although it is true, well elderly. It
was a method in which the psychiatrist talked with his patient and this
was something they liked, because some had already gone before the
other psychiatrists who hardly said anything and they could not get used
to it right.With Madame Irina, Hector had not experienced much psychotherapy, no, because when I went to ask a question, she said:- Doctor, I know what are you going to ask me.What's worse is that often (but not always) she was right.Therefore,
with the knowledge he had, the tricks of the trade, drugs and
psychotherapy, and even more that his secret to the people interested in
fact, Hector was a good psychiatrist. I
mean he came to the same results which reaches a good doctor, a good
cardiologist, for example, Hector could completely heal some of their
patients, others kept them in good health since they continue to take
all the drugs that day prescribed
and come talk to him from time to time, and that was about all he could
help support the disease, trying to make it the least severe possible.Hector, however, was not satisfied.He was not happy because he knew very well that he could not make people happy.""
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