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Arturo Varchevker explains why we are all migrants from birth to death

Migration and its vicissitudes The life cycle is an important framework that has been used and can be used by different theoretical perspectives and from

CABBY LAFFY: ‘We live in a highly sexualised culture, yet sexual issues are still shrouded in shame’

Sexual energy is potentially a free source of pleasure and ecstasy, with remarkable physical and emotional health benefits. In the UK, we seem much more li

Gavin Newby describes the development of Neuropsychotherapy, a new and emerging discipline

Neuropsychotherapy: emerging from the shadows Within the broader world of psychology and clinical psychology, neuropsychology has had a reputation for bein

Dianna Kenny argues that infant intersubjectivity is primordial, not developmental

Dianna Kenny, author of Bringing up Baby: the Psychoanalytic Infant Comes of Age, presents the evidence against the standard assumption that infants are ‘

Raul Moncayo explores the relationship between Zen and Lacanian psychoanalysis

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and

Annie Reiner explores Bion’s concept of “O”

Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind The central focus of my new book, Bion And Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, is Wilfred Bion’s concept o

John Michael Greer explains why symptoms of approaching social change are often pathologized

The human psyche is not simply a cultural construct. Neither is the universe in which the individual and society alike are embedded. Both have their own re

OLIVER JAMES: The England riots of August 2011

Looking back on the theories offered to explain the riots of 2011, there was too much attention paid to the issue of why they occurred at that particular m

Self-Destruction, Heidegger, and Nature as a gigantic gas station

Brent Potter, author of Elements of Self Destruction, engages with the works of Wilfred Bion and Martin Heidegger to explore the sometimes horrifying manif

David Rosenfeld explores the origins of symbols and the logic of thought through the study of autism

The Creation of the Self and Language I consider that the treatment of an autistic child is an opportunity to observe and investigate the origins of verba

Hendrika C. Freud on Marcel Proust, Masochism, and Matricide

The subject of the mother-son relationship had never been broached with such psychological insight as in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (1921).

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

Support Kids Company ‘Give the gift of Christmas’ campaign

As Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company, explains: ‘We work with some of the most traumatised children and young people, the majority of who

Tom Ormay’s theory of the fundamental social nature of all human beings

The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person By presenting a series of interconnected studies, effort is made to approach timely questions regard

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

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

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

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-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

‘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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness, by Rod Tweedy

How Society Shapes Who We Are The Political Self explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and well-being, and how

Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences, by Aida Alayarian

Addressing the Gap Between the Psychological Needs of Children and the Services Provided An Afghan refugee girl holds her younger sister In a world where

The Power of Inner Pictures, by Thomas Kretschmar and Martin Tzschaschel

How Imagination Can Maintain Physical and Mental Health Many would not believe it, but you can accomplish a great deal with inner pictures. The power of t

Permission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture, by Martin Weegmann

The Origins of Permission to Narrate I’d just finished The World Within the Group (2014) and had several lines of research and chapter drafts that did not

What To Do If the Mind Does Not Develop, by Roberto Bertolini

A Psychoanalytic Study of Pervasive Developmental Disorders What To Do If the Mind Does Not Develop is a psychoanalytic study of pervasive developmental d

Attachment Theory: Working Towards Learned Security, by Rhona M. Fear

The Importance of differentiating between ‘Learned Security’ and ‘Earned Security’ After almost three decades working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist,

Sports on the Couch, by Ricardo A. Rubinstein

How the Psychological and the Somatic Interact and Play Off Each Other This book explores how we think about and understand sport from the perspective of

KARNACOLOGY HAS MOVED!

From January 2017 all of the articles, interviews, reviews, and resources from Karnacology will be available direct from Karnac: please click here. New bl

Psychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today, by Alison Vaspe

Is there a way of promoting or instituting better integrated services? This March will see the publication of a timely and significant book illustrating t

The Therapy Womb, by Michael Eigen

Psychoanalytic Beauty and the Unborn Self I remember the first one-on-one session I had with a patient when I began training. I felt I could breathe in an

Rewiring the Human Brain to Train it for Obedience and Violence: The Psychological Reality of Military Training, by David Gee

The First Ambush: Hijacking the Human Brain ‘Unbeknown to me at the time, the army’s training and/or indoctrination would come to shape my life, my decisi

A View from the Attic: Karen Izod on Place and Memory

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