Investigation into psychologist Caroline Goldman, the anti-Dolto who “cures children in two weeks”

The child and adolescent psychologist that everyone has been talking about since the publication of “File dans ta chambre!” has published a new book. An opportunity to meet the therapist who advocates the return of authority. And to analyze the controversial method that makes her successful.

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“I wouldn’t want it to turn into a narcissistic cult,” says Caroline Goldman, a child psychologist, leaning against the wall of her office in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine) for the shoot. The photographer didn’t want the glass roof, which is seen too much in the newspapers. He shoots her. Her face turned towards the July light, the psychologist says she takes no pleasure in it. Hating fame as much as her father, the singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. Only loving to write.

On September 4, she is releasing a “Guide des parents d’aujourd’hui” (Guide for Today’s Parents) at Flammarion, which brings together the chronicles of her podcast and those broadcast on France-Inter in the summer of 2023. Two other books are in preparation for 2025, at Dunod. After a “media diet”Caroline Goldman returns and it is an opportunity to look at the reasons for her success.

From a distance, she could be confused with Françoise Dolto (1908-1988), a psychoanalyst…