Christophe André is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. For fifteen years, he practiced medicine and rugby in Toulouse. He moved to Paris, where he replaced rugby with writing and published numerous essays. University professor and psychiatrist at the Sainte-Anne hospital, in a unit specializing in the treatment of emotional, anxious and depressive disorders, he has been practicing meditation for years and also uses it to help his patients to free themselves from suffering and to savor their existence. According to Le Nouvel Observateur, "an authority of positive psychology in France."