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Alan Mulhern analyses how a subtle, powerful healing intelligence permeates the psyche |

Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy – Working with Darkness and Light The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my trai

Frozen Children: Rod Tweedy explores the pathology of contemporary Disney

Devitalisation, Ice-olation, and Zero Degrees Princesses: Disney’s FROZEN Frozen is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifth highest-

Alan Mulhern analyses how a subtle, powerful healing intelligence permeates the psyche

Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy – Working with Darkness and Light The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my trai

Frozen Children: Rod Tweedy explores the pathology of contemporary Disney |

Devitalisation, Ice-olation, and Zero Degrees Princesses: Disney’s FROZEN Frozen is the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the fifth highest-

Jackie Gerrard explores the wisdom of not knowing: ‘the answer is there are no answers’

The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist Brett Kahr came to hear my paper on Absence (Chapter 8) given at the London Centre for Psychot

Coline Covington asks: Why would there be so many paedophiles in Westminster? |

Craving the love and devotion of their victims, it is not surprising that some culprits are politicians Home Secretary Theresa May, still trying to find s

Eran J. Rolnik discusses Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity |

Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity Few episodes in the history of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cult

Jackie Gerrard explores the wisdom of not knowing: ‘the answer is there are no answers’ |

The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist Brett Kahr came to hear my paper on Absence (Chapter 8) given at the London Centre for Psychot

Marco Bacciagaluppi on meeting John Bowlby, evolutionary attachment mechanisms, and predatory patriarchal culture |

Paradigms in Psychoanalysis At nearly 80, I thought it could be useful to share with readers my experience of nearly fifty years in the field of psychoana

Bitcoin Gold Rush – Evangelists or Selfish Revolutionaries? – Coline Covington examines the rise of the virtual currency |

Supporters of the virtual currency boast of no controls and no victims – but do they just want to get rich quick? As financial regulations increase by the

January | 2015 |

Supporters of the virtual currency boast of no controls and no victims – but do they just want to get rich quick? As financial regulations increase by the

Donald Robertson explores the links between Psychotherapy and Philosophy |

Psychotherapy and Philosophy What can philosophy tell us about therapy? There are many opportunities for dialogue between philosophers and psychotherapist

A.H. Brafman explores the secret language of drawings |

The Language of Drawings This book is the result of a long gestation period. Life had taught me that I was a good communicator, meaning that somehow peopl

Deirdre Johnson explores love as both a form of bondage and liberation |

Love: Bondage or Liberation? The Meaning, Values, and Dangers of Falling in Love In the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as we know, falling in

Paul Marcus explains the art of living the Good Life |

Creating the ‘Good Life’ In my most recent book Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life, I asked the questio

John Marzillier discusses the origins of his highly acclaimed book, ‘The Gossamer Thread’ |

The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist Years ago I started writing a novel in which a recently retired psychoanalyst is interviewed by a young

Meg Harris Williams explains the origins of the Harris Meltzer Trust books |

The Harris Meltzer Trust, by Meg Harris Williams Donald Meltzer, who died in 2004, wished that the educational work disseminated over the course of over 3

Sarah Benamer on why the narrative of trauma is ubiquitous in contemporary society |

Trauma and Attachment The John Bowlby Memorial Conference Series is the culmination of a collective journey in which we, as John Bowlby Centre conference

February | 2015 |

Creating the ‘Good Life’ In my most recent book Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life, I asked the questio

Michael Eigen explores the links between ‘soul sickness’, madness, and mystical experience |

Eigen in Seoul: Volume One – Madness and Murder Many years ago a man came up to me after a talk at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalys

John Espy uncovers the psychological ‘signature’ of the serial killer |

Going beneath the skin of the contemporary fascination with serial killers: the Allure of Power, Control, Dominance ‘I hadn’t started out per se to ‘study

Bernie Neville and Tim Dalmau uncover the archetypal patterns in organizational culture |

Olympus Inc. BERNIE NEVILLE: Sometimes you can say that a book changed your life. It happened to me in 1976 when I read James Hillman’s Revisioning Psycho

James Rose asks: can we be objective about subjectivity? |

Mapping Psychic Reality: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight This book arose out of the convergence in my mind of two strands of thought. The first

Wyn Bramley uncovers the unconscious processes that create or destroy relationships |

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered This book is addressed to anyone, lay or professional, who seeks to understand more of the shared unconscious processes

March | 2015 |

Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology In 1957 the art critic Carlton Lake (1915-2006) enjoyed a remarkably frank

Thomas Dalzell argues for a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in his compelling study of Freud’s Schreber |

Freud’s Schreber: Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis This book is not another general exploration of Freud’s 1911 Schreber text or yet another account

David Buckley reflects on the interplay between religion and psychology |

Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology In 1957 the art critic Carlton Lake (1915-2006) enjoyed a remarkably frank

Aviation psychologist Professor Robert Bor examines the mental health issues behind the recent Germanwings plane tragedy |

The Eve of Destruction: Germanwings flight 4U 9525 and Pilot Suicide A popular but dated image of pilots probably derives from war movies showing scenes i

In the run-up to the general election Lene Auestad considers the politics of the unconscious |

On Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Representation Thinking psychoanalytically about a phenomenon involves conceiving of it in a way that takes account

Thomas T. Lawson: Jung and evolutionary science |

The Evolution of Consciousness I would like to think of my book, Carl Jung: Darwin of the Mind, as offering a useful primer for the non-specialist who wis

Andrew Samuels considers how therapy can transform politics |

A New Therapy for Politics? Andrew’s new book, A New Therapy for Politics?, will be published by Karnac. Here he trails some of the ideas that are develop

April | 2015 |

A New Therapy for Politics? Andrew’s new book, A New Therapy for Politics?, will be published by Karnac. Here he trails some of the ideas that are develop

Nick Duffell puts the Establishment on the Couch |

The Establishment on the Couch: Analysing the politics of blame, fear, apathy and denial Psychotherapy and politics As Britain nervily approaches an unpr

Jacqueline Schaeffer re

The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation Faced with the difficulties and setbacks that he was encoun

Jacqueline Schaeffer re-assesses Freud’s ‘repudiation of femininity’ |

The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation Faced with the difficulties and setbacks that he was encoun

Salomon Resnik on the Importance of Ludic Transference

Confessions of a psychoanalyst who has not forgotten how to play There I was, walking along the streets of Buenos Aires in the early 1950s, when I ran int

W.M. Bernstein explains why it is impossible to reduce psychology to biology

Objective Subjectivity: A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis Freud’s ideas about the mind, evolution, and culture were revolutionary. Psychoanalytic theo

Salomon Resnik on the Importance of Ludic Transference |

Confessions of a psychoanalyst who has not forgotten how to play There I was, walking along the streets of Buenos Aires in the early 1950s, when I ran int

W.M. Bernstein explains why it is impossible to reduce psychology to biology |

Objective Subjectivity: A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis Freud’s ideas about the mind, evolution, and culture were revolutionary. Psychoanalytic theo

May | 2015 |

Objective Subjectivity: A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis Freud’s ideas about the mind, evolution, and culture were revolutionary. Psychoanalytic theo

Leticia Franieck and Michael Günter: On Latency

In psychoanalytical terms latency is defined as a developmental period in which psychosexual maturation marks time – it occurs after the oedipal phase and

Leticia Franieck and Michael Günter: On Latency |

On Latency: Individual Development, Narcissistic Impulse, Reminiscence, and Cultural Ideal In psychoanalytical terms latency is defined as a developmental

Meg Harris Williams reveals the true story of Oedipus

Suffering into Truth: The Achievement of Oedipus Given that the story of Oedipus is foundational to psychoanalytic thinking it is surprising that there ha

Meg Harris Williams reveals the true story of Oedipus |

Suffering into Truth: The Achievement of Oedipus Given that the story of Oedipus is foundational to psychoanalytic thinking it is surprising that there ha

Psychoanalyst and playwright Antonio Quinet discusses the origins of his play about Freud

Hilda and Freud: Collected Words Antonio Quinet in the performance of the play (Freud Museum, 2013) This is a play on Hilda Doolittle’s analysis with Fre

Psychoanalyst and playwright Antonio Quinet discusses the origins of his play about Freud |

Hilda and Freud: Collected Words Antonio Quinet in the performance of the play (Freud Museum, 2013) This is a play on Hilda Doolittle’s analysis with Fre

Kabbalah and Sigmund Freud: Joseph Berke uncovers The Hidden Freud |

The Covert Freud and the Lights He Lit on Western Culture There were many Freuds: the scholar, the academic, the researcher, the neurologist, the founder

Kabbalah and Sigmund Freud: Joseph Berke uncovers The Hidden Freud

The Covert Freud and the Lights He Lit on Western Culture There were many Freuds: the scholar, the academic, the researcher, the neurologist, the founder

David Gee explores the mental health issues of youth recruitment on ‘Armed Forces Day’

PTSD, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child Recruitment, and Violence: Aspects of Mental Health in today’s British Armed Forces Although not all veterans are severel

David Gee explores the mental health issues of youth recruitment on ‘Armed Forces Day’ |

PTSD, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child Recruitment, and Violence: Aspects of Mental Health in today’s British Armed Forces Although not all veterans are severel

Love, Art, and Psychoanalysis: Janet Sayers explores ‘at-one

The Interpretation of the Other: An Analysis of Love ‘Oh, yes, I’ve been in love before alright but though violently not to a hundredth this degree. For I

Psychoanalysis Online: Jill Savege Scharff discusses the impact of technology on development, training, and therapy |

Technology, teleanalysis and teletherapy How does technology impact the human mind? Developmental, neuroscientific research and clinical experience confir

Love, Art, and Psychoanalysis: Janet Sayers explores ‘at-one-ment’ in the work of Adrian Stokes |

The Interpretation of the Other: An Analysis of Love ‘Oh, yes, I’ve been in love before alright but though violently not to a hundredth this degree. For I

Psychoanalysis Online: Jill Savege Scharff discusses the impact of technology on development, training, and therapy

Technology, teleanalysis and teletherapy How does technology impact the human mind? Developmental, neuroscientific research and clinical experience confir

Analysis of the Incest Trauma, by Arnold W. Rachman and Susan A. Klett

Retrieval, Recovery, and Renewal “What have we done to you – poor child?”- Sigmund Freud (1897) There is an important irony in psychoanalysis that our bo

Analysis of the Incest Trauma, by Arnold W. Rachman and Susan A. Klett |

Retrieval, Recovery, and Renewal “What have we done to you – poor child?”- Sigmund Freud (1897) There is an important irony in psychoanalysis that our bo

June | 2015 |

PTSD, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child Recruitment, and Violence: Aspects of Mental Health in today’s British Armed Forces Although not all veterans are severel

Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira consider the role of myths in the psychology of contemporary women |

Myths of Mighty Women: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy It is the premise of our book Myths of Mighty Women, that the Oedipus myth which

Ronald Britton discusses his new book ‘Between Mind and Brain’ |

Models of the Mind, and Models in the Mind “In every writer on philosophy there is a concealed metaphysic, usually unconscious; even if his subject is met

Freud and the Buddha: Axel Hoffer on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other |

The Couch and the Cushion My book, Freud and the Buddha: the Couch and the Cushion, aims to explore what two traditions dedicated to the alleviation of hu

Freud and the Buddha: Alex Hoffer on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other |

The Couch and the Cushion My book, Freud and the Buddha: the Couch and the Cushion, is a unique contribution to the subject of what two traditions dedicat

Cultivating a Metaphor: Smita Rajput Kamble unearths the secrets of therapeutic growth |

Psychotherapy as Farming – The Story of Anna Hazare and the Healing of a Village If you google ‘Anna Hazare’ on www.bbc.co.uk , the most prominent picture

July | 2015 |

Psychotherapy as Farming – The Story of Anna Hazare and the Healing of a Village If you google ‘Anna Hazare’ on www.bbc.co.uk , the most prominent picture

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? David Mathew explains the concept of ‘Fragile Learning’ |

Adult Education: The Anxiety of Influence and the Influence of Anxiety Fragile Learning: The Influence of Anxiety asks the reader to consider a wide varie

The Journey: My Time with Cancer, by Patrick Casement |

Patrick Casement’s moving account of being diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma Preamble Ever since I came out of hospital (three years ago) I have several

How the experience of grief and loss shapes our world, by Vamık D. Volkan |

Life after Loss: The Lessons of Grief I was born in Cyprus, a Mediterranean island, when it was a British colony. After completing my high school educatio

Consuming Violence: forensic psychoanalyst John C. Espy on our fascination with serial killers |

A Journey Through the Dark Boroughs of a Pedophilic Cannibal’s Mind Nathaniel Bar Jonah would regularly say, when questioned about the murder of the 10-ye

Consuming Violence: forensic psychoanalyst John C. Espy on our fascination with serial killers |

A Journey Through the Dark Boroughs of a Pedophilic Cannibal’s Mind Nathaniel Bar Jonah would regularly say, when questioned about the murder of the 10-ye

Integrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming our ways of working with people, by Mikael Sonne and Jan Tønnesvang |

A new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people’s lives Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new framework and form

Yoga and Autism: Making a Connection, by Nicole Schnackenberg |

How yoga can promote embodiment, connection, sensory integration, and anxiety-reduction in children Recent figures estimate that approximately 1% of the p

The Courage of Simplicity: Hanni Biran explores the central ideas in the work of W.R. Bion |

Psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group, and society The chapters of this book were written throughout a period of many years. The ide

Analysing the Social Context of Individual Distress: Celebrating the Pioneering Work of David Smail |

David Smail: Clinical Psychologist, Sociologist, Philosopher, and Political Critic As Karnac Books republish four key works by the pioneering clinical psy

August | 2015 |

How yoga can promote embodiment, connection, sensory integration, and anxiety-reduction in children Recent figures estimate that approximately 1% of the p

The Enigma of Childhood: How our earliest relationships profoundly shape all our later ones, by Ronnie Solan |

The Space of Shared Experience and the Art of Couplehood I would like to invite you to delve right in and explore the enigma of the art of couplehood and

A Nazi Legacy: The Transgenerational Inheritance of Trauma, by Vamık D. Volkan |

Depositing, Transgenerational Transmission, Dissociation and Remembering through Action As a psychoanalyst, I have been actively involved in international

‘Invisible Mending: A Novel’, by Guillermo Julio Montero |

‘Always’ is a beautiful word This is a film made with the sentences and the plot of the novel Invisible Mending by Argentine psychoanalyst and novelist Gu

The Vicissitudes of Totemism: Gérard Lucas explains how our changing view of totemism reflects our own cultural markings |

One hundred years after Totem and Taboo Although it was the object of numerous publications by ethnologists from the mid-nineteenth century up to the Firs

MEDEA: Myth and Unconscious Fantasy, by Esa Roos |

‘The Dark Continent’: Myths of Femininity According to Freud (1933) the theory of the instincts is so to say our mythology. Instincts are mythical entitie

September | 2015 |

One hundred years after Totem and Taboo Although it was the object of numerous publications by ethnologists from the mid-nineteenth century up to the Firs

Magic, Storytelling and Childhood: the origins of Rensal the Redbit, by Eugene J. Mahon |

‘Once Upon An Analysis…’ The psychoanalytic voyage of discovery is probably impossible to capture in words. If every analysis is unique, the signature of

October | 2015 |

The Bedrock of Therapy is our Shared Humanity As professions that are now firmly entrenched in society, psychotherapy and counselling are relative newcome

Image, Sense, Infinities, and Everyday Life : Acts of Shared Faith, by Michael Eigen |

‘On the seashore of endless worlds, children play’ I have been fascinated by images ever since I can remember. How embarrassing for my mother, proudly int

The therapy relationship: A special kind of friendship, by Richard Hallam |

The Bedrock of Therapy is our Shared Humanity As professions that are now firmly entrenched in society, psychotherapy and counselling are relative newcome

Paul Marcus on how humour is a serious business, in both therapy and life |

Laughing with Two Rabbis and an Imam During my research for writing my book How To Laugh Your Way Through Life. A Psychoanalyst’s Advice (Karnac, 2013), I

Anorexia: A Plea for Better Treatment, by Sophia Gore |

That’s the catch when you stop eating — food starts to eat you Writing The Rustle of a Wing: Finding Hope Beyond Anorexia has been both a challenge and a

The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions?, by Rhona M. Fear |

How our attachment experiences determine our response to unresolved oedipal issues I always think it is fascinating to discover what makes a particular au

Love and Therapy: In Relationship, by Divine Charura and Stephen Paul |

You are Good Enough In modern culture love has a prominent position. Television dramas, songs and novels as well as popular magazines all focus on love in

Militarizing Minds: Media Violence and the Military, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman |

We’re teaching our kids not how to Remember, but how to Kill Introduction Why should we study killing? One might just as readily ask, Why study sex? The

The Psychomatrix: A Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain, by Doreen M. Francis |

It is not the pain we suffer, but our relationship to it that makes life complicated My book The Psychomatrix began with just a shadow of an idea that had

Counselling children and young people in private practice: A practical guide, by Rebecca Kirkbride |

Parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners for therapy for their children Therapeutic work with children, young people and their families i

The Motive for Metaphor: Brief Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis, by Henry M. Seiden |

How the poetic and psychoanalytic processes illuminate each other The Motive for Metaphor can be thought of as a small anthology: each chapter a kind of m

The Topological Transformation of Freud’s Theory, by Jean-Gerard Bursztein |

The Future of Psychoanalysis Today in the Babelisation and disorder of the psychoanalytic movement, the Lacanian theory constitutes the open reformulation

Therapy with Infants: Treating a Traumatised Child, by Inger Thormann and Inger Poulsen |

Everything That is Left Unsaid Ties up Energy Therapy with Infants outlines a form of psychotherapy aimed at infants and young children who have experienc

‘The lonely, isolated, unwanted, mocked, and misunderstood’: Some comments on Asperger’s disorder, by Robin Holloway |

Refining the Spectrum: We Need Better Diagnostic Distinctions for Children with AS Lonely, isolated, unwanted, mocked, shunned, rejected, denigrated, desp

Filming Bion’s ‘A Memoir of the Future’, by Meg Harris Williams |

The Becoming Room This book, whose writing spans 33 years, records a series of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future. The main project

Why Dignity Matters, by Susan S. Levine |

Write or Wrong: What Patients Tell Me About Dignity and Psychoanalytic Treatment “The talking cure.” These words were first uttered by Bertha Pappenheim,

Couple Dynamics, by Aleksandra Novakovic |

Psychoanalytic perspectives in work with the individuals, the couple, and the group This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the

Moment of Clarity: Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous, by Ian McCabe |

Is Alcoholism Primarily a Spiritual Illness? The 12 Steps as a Spiritual Journey of Individuation As part of my research journey for my book, Carl Jung an

Illuminati ritual abuse and mind control: a true story, by Wendy Hoffman |

How Mind Control Programming is Accomplished and How it Works White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story of Criminal Mind Control brings to light an underc

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year |

Why Peace is Not Just for Christmas, by Rod Tweedy Last year saw the centenary of the Christmas Truce of World War One – the remarkable event in which sol