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Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Recovery, by Dr Raman Kapur MBE |

Therapeutic atmospheres can be created anywhere One flew into the cuckoo’s nest—but how do we help them get out? We are all familiar with the usual images

Disability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care, by Pat Frankish |

A Psychoanalytically-informed approach to helping and supporting people with disabilities This book represents a life-times work with people with learning

Being With and Saying Goodbye: A Reflection, by Andrew F. West |

Healing Between the Lines: How doing and being go hand-in-hand My book (I feel inclined to say “my first book”), Being With and Saying Goodbye, has just b

Being With and Saying Goodbye: A Reflection, by Andrew West |

Healing Between the Lines: How doing and being go hand-in-hand My book (I feel inclined to say “my first book”), Being With and Saying Goodbye, has just b

Jung and Shiva: Encounters with a subterranean God, by Smita Rajput Kamble |

The Mind in the Cave and the Cave in the Mind “Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation and the personality too desires to evolve out of

David Bowie: Alienation and Stardom, by Rod Tweedy |

Schizophrenia, Spaceboys, and the Spiders from Mars The death of David Bowie has revived both intense media interest in his work and astonishing creative

Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, by Belinda Mackie |

How to Understand Institutions that Care for Patients There are many paths that offer an understanding of the experience of people with psychosis, and num

The Snake in the Clinic: Psychotherapy’s Role in Medicine and Healing, by Guy Dargert |

Symptom as symbol: the metaphors of the soul’s true story Many psychotherapists and general medical practitioners subscribe to the popular understanding t

INTO TA—Personal reflections, by Bill Cornell |

The Evolution of Transactional Analysis The evolution of Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook proved to be quite an adventure. The roots of this book were in

Mentalizing in Arts Therapy, by Marianne Verfaille |

Forging a link between arts therapies and mentalization-based treatment When clients work with nonverbal means such as art, movement or music in a way tha

Madness Dispersed or Disseminated: A re-actualization, by Salomon Resnik |

Madness in a Maddening World Psychosis can be seen as the sign or symptom of disturbances within our present cultural situation in the world. For a signif

How Marcel Proust taught me how to detect a sadomasochistic game, by Hendrika C. Freud |

Perversion serves a Purpose Helene, an intelligent hardworking woman in her mid forties, mother of three, twice divorced, seeks treatment. She considers h

Perversions and Paraphilias: Sergio Benvenuto asks what the concept of “perversion” means today |

Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis Many deny that perversions exist. Even despite the fact that today’s dominant psychiatry has re-baptized them as paraphi

The Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside In, by John C. Espy |

Psychoanalysis is a psychic pilgrimage that reveals the depths of our loves and our depravities I thought long and hard about what to write for Karnacolog

Married Life and its Vicissitudes: A Therapeutic Approach, by Arturo Varchevker

How therapy can transform marital miscommunication into constructive communication Marital therapy has developed significantly in the last few decades and

The Hands of Gravity and Chance, by Thomas H. Ogden |

Take a Chance, Read a Novel The Hands of Gravity and Chance is about the interior life of the members of a family, as well as the interior life of the fam

Fighting Melancholia: What Don Quixote Teaches Us, by Françoise Davoine |

The Therapist as Therapon: A Healing Sancho Panzo The success of Cervantes’ classic novel Don Quixote – reputed to be the second bestselling book after th

Married Life and its Vicissitudes: A Therapeutic Approach, by Arturo Varchevker |

How therapy can transform marital miscommunication into constructive communication Marital therapy has developed significantly in the last few decades and

Freud and War, by Marlène Belilos |

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death War is obviously still a core issue for us today – just as it was for Freud, as Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni observes

Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations, by Ronald C. Naso and Jon Mills

Moralizing Evil Are we headed toward human extinction? All inhabited continents are engaged in military conflict, and there is no foreseeable end in sight

Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations, by Ronald C. Naso and Jon Mills |

Moralizing Evil Are we headed toward human extinction? All inhabited continents are engaged in military conflict, and there is no foreseeable end in sight

Racist States of Mind, by Narendra Keval

Rationalism and Racism: how modern racism has its roots in the Enlightenment The aim of my new book, Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion o

Racist States of Mind, by Narendra Keval |

Rationalism and Racism: how modern racism has its roots in the Enlightenment The aim of my new book, Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion o

Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of Mind, by Marcus West |

How early traumatic experiences, and our primitive responses to them, become embedded in our personalities We live in fascinating times, where recent adva

True Tales of Organisational Life, by Barbara–Anne Wren |

Crafting Stories: Allowing Form and Meaning to Emerge In 2009 when I was invited to become the facilitator of Schwartz Rounds at the Royal Free Hospital i

The Language of Distress: Understanding a Child’s Behaviour, by A.H. Brafman |

Translating the Language of Squiggles As is well known, each specialist approaches his patients concentrating on his particular field of work. If his inve

A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern, by Daniel Burston |

The Pillar of Fire: Psychoanalysis and Religion Ever since my undergraduate days, I’ve been interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and reli

Had: Child abuse and the erosion of trust, by Ian Mucklejohn |

The Tragedy of Crookham Court School In 1969 Ian Mucklejohn went as a supply teacher to Crookham Court School, a private boys’ school in Berkshire, where

The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis, by Pushpa Misra |

Testing Freud: Evidence and Confirmation It was 1986 and I was taking a course with Henry Kyburg, Jr at the University of Rochester where I was enrolled t

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health, by Marcus Evans |

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication In her foreword of my book, Edna O’Shaughnessy says ‘that the psychoanalytic method does not k

False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance

The Objectified Body as a Transitional Object in Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorders False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identi

False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity Struggles, by Nicole Schnackenberg |

The Objectified Body as a Transitional Object in Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorders False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identi

Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self-Reflection, by Minna Martin |

Living in the Breath: Breathing as a tool for professionals in health care, interpersonal work, teaching and guidance When introducing people to the breat

Better Late than Never: The Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regression to Dependence, by Lorraine Price |

Regressing to move forwards My search for healing began many years ago, when I was experiencing unhappiness and extreme anxiety with panic attacks. I ente

Breathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self

Living in the Breath: Breathing as a tool for professionals in health care, interpersonal work, teaching and guidance When introducing people to the breat

The Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope: A Systems Approach to Coaching, by Jenny Plaister-Ten |

How Intercultural Understanding Enriches the Coaching Relationship My book, The Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope, was written over a period of four years, in a

The Wisdom of Lived Experience, by Maxine K. Anderson |

How the ongoing dialogue between the left and right hemispheres constitutes our mental reality My book The Wisdom of Lived Experience explores various asp

Brexit, Boris, and Betrayal: How Boarding School Syndrome continues to shape Political Debate, by Nick Duffell |

Divided by education, by design, by normalised duplicity, should the UK be surprised to find itself in deep trouble? The shocking events, misinformation,

Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender: Common Man or Monster?, by Barry Maletzky |

Challenging the Myths Surrounding Sexual Abuse and Sexual Offenders There are few crimes which evoke more horror and loathing than sexual abuse, especiall

The Other Side of Silence, by Pauline Schokman |

A story about the stories we tell ourselves The Other Side of Silence is a novel about many things; intergenerational trauma, unresolved grief, the way in

An Evolutionary Leap: Colin Wilson on Psychology, by Colin Stanley |

The author, philosopher, and existential psychologist Colin Wilson (1931-2013) Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in Leicester—the first child of Arth

Under the Totem: In Search of a Path, by Michael Eigen

The further we go, the more there is to go Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces

Under the Totem: In Search of a Path, by Michael Eigen |

The further we go, the more there is to go Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces

Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work, by Giuseppe Craparo and Clara Mucci

The psychological and neurobiological characteristics of the ‘unrepressed unconscious’ and the role of the right hemisphere What do we mean by “unrepresse

Meltzer in Venice, by Maria Elena Petrilli, Hugo Marquez, and Mauro Rossetti |

Adolescent sexuality, aesthetic conflict, and the importance of case discussions Meltzer in Venice: Seminars with the Racker Group of Venice demonstrates

Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work, by Giuseppe Craparo and Clara Mucci |

The psychological and neurobiological characteristics of the ‘unrepressed unconscious’ and the role of the right hemisphere What do we mean by “unrepresse

Mabel Dodge Luhan, A. A. Brill, and the Psychoanalytic Adventure in America, by Patricia R. Everett |

Corresponding Lives: Mabel Dodge Luhan’s letters to A.A. Brill, the first American psychoanalyst Mabel Dodge Sterne in Taos (c. 1918) and A. A. Brill (c.

Psychoanalysis in South Africa, by Joan Raphael-Leff |

How Psychoanalysis is Taking Root in South Africa The history of psychoanalysis in South Africa is a story of tenaciousness. It began after Wulf Sachs emi

Using Mentalizing in practice – The Mentalization Guidebook, by Janne Oestergaard Hagelquist |

Why Mentalization is a gift for anyone working with Trauma and Neglect The interest in mentalization as a concept has been steadily on the rise over the l

Psychoanalysis, Identity and the Internet, by Andrea Marzi |

Explorations into Cyberspace Every day on the internet we look for information, play videogames, chat, work, or buy something. But what exactly is the nat

Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies, by William Fried |

Publishing a Book About Psychoanalysis and Movies I have been a psychoanalyst for about 45 years, and a writer all of my life. Conducted seriously, both p

Teaching the World to Sleep, by David R. Lee |

Psychological and Behavioural Assessment and Treatment Strategies for People with Sleeping Problems and Insomnia Teaching the World to Sleep was written o

The Future of Psychoanalysis, by Peter Zagermann |

The Debate about the Training Analyst System The Future of Psychoanalysis is a call to action with the aim of reaching a fundamental discussion within our

Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy, by Robert Snell |

Entering the Analytic Frame: Psychoanalysis as Romantic Science Following the talk I gave at the Freud Museum on October 6 to celebrate the publication of