François Lelord

François Lelord, April 2012

François Lelord (born June 22, 1953 in Paris ) is a French psychiatrist and writer .

Life

Lelord studied medicine and psychology and, after completing his PhD in 1985, was a year postdoctoral fellow with Robert Liberman at the University of California in Los Angeles . He then worked for two years as a senior physician at the Hôpital Necker at the University of Paris V , before setting up his own practice in Paris in 1989. Lelord gave up this practice in 1996 to advise HR departments of companies and institutions in the areas of job satisfaction and stress until 2004 . Since 2004 he has been practicing as a psychiatrist in hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City . Lelord is married to a Vietnamese woman and has lived in Paris and Bangkok for six months since 2008 .

"Lesson No. 12: Happiness is more difficult in a country ruled by bad people."

- from Hector's trip

With Christophe André he wrote several specialist books on psychological topics. So far he has published eight novels about the psychiatrist and intellectual Hector (see works). They were hugely popular in France, were on the bestseller lists for weeks and appeared in fourteen countries. So far, more than 1.5 million copies of his Hector novels have been sold in Germany, more than in France. In 2014, the film Hector's Journey or the Search for Happiness was made based on the first book .

Works

Non-fiction

• Les Contes d'un psychiatre ordinaire , 1993.
  • The cellist's secret. Almost normal cases of an unusual psychiatrist. Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05015-9 .
• Comment gérer les personnalités difficiles (with Christophe André), 1996.
  • Of ordinary Madness. How to deal with difficult people . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998; Structure, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1687-5 .
• La gestion du stress (with Christophe André and Patrick Légeron), 1998.
• L'estime de soi. S'aimer pour mieux vivre avec les autres (with Christophe André), 1999.
  • The art of self-respect . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2000; Structure, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7466-1805-3 .
• La Force des émotions (with Christophe André), 2001.
  • The power of emotions and how they determine our everyday life . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2002; Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24631-1 .

Fiction

• Liberté pour les insensés. Le roman de Philippe Pinel , 2000.
• Le Voyage d'Hector ou la recherche du bonheur , 2002 (Hector, Volume 1)
  • Hector's Journey or The Search for Happiness. Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-25081-5 .
  • Hector's Journey or The Search for Happiness. Audiobook Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86952-162-6 .

• Ulik au pays du désordre amoureux , 2003.
  • In the messy land of love. Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-04670-1 .
  • In the messy land of love. Audiobook Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86952-017-9 .

• Hector et les secrets de l'amour , 2005; Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-019755-4 (Volume 2)
  • Hector and the secrets of love. Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24991-4 .
  • Hector and the secrets of love. Audiobook Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86952-163-3 .

• Le Nouveau Voyage d'Hector. À la poursuite du temps qui passe , 2006 (Volume 3)
  • Hector and the discovery of time . Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-25267-2 .
  • Hector and the discovery of time . Audiobook Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86952-068-1 .

• Petit Hector apprend la vie , 2010 (Volume 4)
  • Hector & Hector and the secrets of life. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05167-5 .
  • Hector & Hector and the secrets of life. Audiobook Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86952-161-9 .

• Hector and the miracle of friendship. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05166-8 (Volume 5)
• Hector and the miracle of friendship. Audiobook Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86952-160-2 (Volume 5)

• Hector's travels. The most beautiful thoughts and quotes . Ars Edition, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7607-6822-9 .

• La Petite Marchande de Souvenirs , 2013.
  • The little souvenir seller . Piper, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05490-4 .
  • The little souvenir seller . Audiobook Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86952-108-4 .

• Hector veut changer de vie , 2014.
  • Hector starts a new life . Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05491-1 (volume 6).
  • Hector starts a new life . Audiobook Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86952-256-2 (Volume 6).

• The cellist's secret . Audiobook Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86952-084-1 .

• Le jeune homme qui voulait savoir si le Paradis existe , 2016.
  • Hector and the Search for Paradise: Hector's First Journey . Piper, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-31035-2 (Volume 7).
  • Hector and the Search for Paradise: Hector's First Journey . Audiobook Hamburg, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86952-353-8 (Volume 7).

• Hector et les lunettes roses pour aimer la vie , 2018.
  • Hector and the art of confidence . Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05628-1 (Volume 8).
  • Hector and the art of confidence . Audiobook Hamburg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86952-378-1 (Volume 8).

Web links

Wikiquote: François Lelord  - Quotes

• Literature by and about François Lelord in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by François Lelord at perlentaucher.de
• Interview on kultur-base.de from May 1, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Steffi Kammerer: From someone who set out to look for happiness ... In: Bertelsmann Stiftung (Ed.): Change . No. 4 , 2011, p. 54, 57 ( bertelsmann-stiftung.de [PDF; accessed on October 14, 2019]).