Hector and the Search for Happiness [electronic resource]
Lelord, François2010
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Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such a thing as the secret of true happiness...| With over two million copies sold worldwide, Hector and the Search for Happiness is a modern fable about the nature of joy and is now a major motion picture.
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Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such a thing as the secret of true happiness.
Main title:
Hector and the Search for Happiness [electronic resource] / François Lelord
Author:
Lelord, François, AuthorGarcia, Lorenza, Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Gallic Books, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Hector's Journeys
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
François Lelord studied and practiced psychiatry in Paris, and was a consultant for companies interested in reducing stress for their employees. On a trip to Hong Kong, the Hector character popped into his mind. The huge success of Hector and the Search for Happiness led him to spend more time writing and travelling, ending up in Vietnam during the Sars epidemic. There he practiced psychiatry for a French NGO and met his future wife Phuong. Today they live in Thailand.
ISBN:
9781906040994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2899286