“Democracy is a psychological state of collective maturity”says psychotherapist Cătălina Dumitrescu, author of the book “The price of freedom. How mental health becomes the Achilles' heel in democracy”, which will be released this week.
ZYX Books publishing house invites you on Friday, November 21, at 6:30 p.m., at Cărtureşti Verona for launch PAPER “The price of freedom. How mental health becomes the Achilles' heel in democracy”, by Cătălina Dumitrescu, psychotherapist and doctor of psychology. Participate Catalina Dumitrescu, psychotherapist and author, Eugen Hriscu, psychiatrist and psychotherapist and Vlad Stroescu, psychiatrist, and moderates Alexandra Rusudirector of the ZYX Books Publishing House.
The title is available for pre-order: https://bit.ly/3Jp6RmA. In stock from 20 November 2025.
How educated on mental health do you think our society is?
Why are some people attracted to authoritarian leaders with intolerant or even violent speech?
What is the profile of Romanian society in relation to extremism?
In this courageous book, the author describes a harsh context for what we generally believe about mental health, on an individual and societal level. But those who can bear the weight of this rigorous and exhaustive review will receive the gift of hope: there are fabric-relationships, restorative touches, luminous accidents. And you can be one of them. All of us as a society can be.
Psychotherapist Cătălina Dumitrescu is not an optimist, but she opens a new “window of freedom” to all her readers.
We are all different. We have different genetic baggage, other formative experiences, other family, economic and educational contexts. We are not free to become whatever we set our minds to, psychologically speaking – but we are free to do what we can with ourselves within these defining brackets. And sometimes something happens. A blue butterfly, a luminous accident, a healing statistical aberration, resetting the trajectory of a life.
“The price of freedom it is a tool of social diagnosis, an erudite compendium of neuro-psycho-sociology and a manifesto for action. I am convinced that it will drive away the fatigue and existential inertia of our times,” he says psychiatrist Vlad Stroescu, who also wrote the foreword of the book.
About the author:
Cătălina Dumitrescu is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with cognitive-behavioral training, with 29 years of clinical experience. He has a PhD in psychological sciences and skills in occupational psychology. He worked with children with special needs, from disadvantaged backgrounds, and with people in homes for the elderly. For ten years he worked as a clinical psychologist in the hospital, where he took care of the mental state of patients with oncological diseases and various psychopathological diagnoses. Organized and supported support groups for people diagnosed with cancer. For seven years, he coordinated the “School of Parents” project, aimed at providing specialized information and support to future parents. He participated, together with the team of neurosurgeons led by Dr. Dan Șuiaga, in type operations awake brain surgery. Currently, Cătălina Dumitrescu works as an independent psychotherapist and no longer lives in Romania. Write articles for The old dilemma and Cultural observer. He translated the book The hour of the heart. Let's connect here and nowby Dr. Irvin D. Yalom and Benjamin Yalom (2024). She is the author of the volume Inside. Moments of meeting yourself (2022); co-author of the collective volume Are we sane? About mental health in Romania (2022); co-author of the collective volume What other spells has my cat cast? (2023) and the author of the volume The same us. When the meaning of the future is in our past (2024).
About ZYX Books
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