Gérard Tixier

At all hours of the day and night, Gérard Tixier, an emergency psychiatrist, crisscrosses the city providing in-home first aid to people suffering from psychological distress, emotional shock, or mental disorders of varying severity. Thirty accounts of these immediate interventions take us to the heart of everyday madness—the madness of emotional, mental, familial, or sexual distress—and reveal for the first time the hidden side of a society in crisis.