Our heroes are sick

• April 16, 2025

What's going on inside Hannibal Lecter's head? Why does Rambo struggle to find peace? Christophe Debien, hospital psychiatrist and co-author of the YouTube channel Psylab, tackles an often fantasized aspect of fiction: the mental disorders of our iconic figures from the big and small screens. In Nos héros sont malades, he infiltrates the psychological profiles of cult characters, from Tony Soprano to The Joker, Dexter and The Shining.

Based on real-life pathologies (bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, etc.), he deciphers how fiction sometimes draws inspiration from them very accurately - or very freely. A read that's as entertaining as it is educational, highlighting the realities experienced by people with mental disorders.

Nos héros sont malades (Our Heroes Are Sick ) is a book at the crossroads of pop culture and psychiatry, inviting us to take a different look - a more human, more conscious one - at our favorite characters, and, beyond that, at mental disorders themselves.