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Philosophy and psychotherapy (Part 2): Stoicism — Karnacology

The growing popularity of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and modern self-help literature has triggered renewed interest in the practical side of ancie

The England riots of August 2011 — Karnacology

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

Psychotherapy and philosophy (Part 1) — Karnacology

What can philosophy tell us about therapy? There are many opportunities for dialogue between philosophers and psychotherapists. In the past, there’s been i

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 training, in which some notable psychotherapists were giving an overview of the principle

Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

The possibility of failure is inherent in all learning and the further one has progressed in the process of learning, the greater the risk of failure can b

Thinking of Becoming a Counsellor?

I was prompted in part to write this book by a study in Counselling & Psychotherapy which discovered that more than eighty four percent of counsellors in t

What life brings

One of the warming aspects of tragic happenings is the well wishes of others. In the case of Hurricane Sandy, this includes notes and calls received from p

Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction

Karnac Books: What made you write this book? Lynette Harborne: This book grew out of my experience as a psychotherapist, spiritual director, supervisor an

The Social Nature of Persons: One Person is No Person

In the present work I intend to give the basic ideas to a theory of „nos”, and not an exhaustive presentation of the whole topic. The latter would be the t

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 psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In addi

Gestalt Therapy: Roots and Branches

A major starting point for the development of Gestalt Therapy from psychoanalysis was a specific understanding of self arising from contact. To put it (rel

Freud In Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Few episodes in the history of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional and ethical issues as the arrival of ps

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 of O. It is the most mysterious and controversia

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and particularly to explore the relationship between Zen and Lacanian ps

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 verbal symbols and the creation of language,

‘Killing them off’: The patriarchal context of the Anders Breivik report — Karnacology

Peter Aylward reveals his conclusion on the Anders Breivik Psychiatric Report 2011-11-29. The psychoanalytic psychotherapist, author of Understanding Dunbl

Dreamwork and Self-Healing

Greg Bogart's book Dreamwork and Self-Healing: Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious is a rich and detailed contribution to the study of dreamwork from

Marcel Proust: the making of a sadomasochist — Karnacology

Hendrika C. Freud, author of Men and Mothers: The Lifelong Struggle of Sons and Their Mothers, reflects on Marcel Proust's relationship with his mother, an

Neuropsychotherapy: emerging from the shadows — Karnacology

Gavin Newby describes the development of neuropsychotherapy, a new and emerging discipline. Newby is an editor of and contributor to a ground-breaking book

Foreshocks of the mind — Karnacology

John Michael Greer, whose powerful new book explores the psychological and social consequences of the peak oil crisis (Not the Future We Ordered) reflects

Impediments to the marriage of two minds — Karnacology

Fiona Ross, author of Perversion: a Jungian Approach, presents the unthought and unanswered transferential questions posed when an analyst's unconscious en

The intersubjective infant — Karnacology

This implicit, embodied knowledge forms the basis of infant object relationships, which later become accessible in the transference of patients undergoing

The sound of Sigmund Freud — Karnacology

This is the only known audio recording of Sigmund Freud, made by the BBC and broadcast in December, 1938. Freud was ill with throat cancer at the time. A t

Migration and its vicissitudes — Karnacology

The life cycle is an important framework that has been used and can be used by different theoretical perspectives and from various disciplines. The concept

A demented beehive — Karnacology

Early in my career during the 1990s, I recall occasionally looking up from my discussion with a so-called chronically mentally ill patient to look around t

A free source of pleasure and ecstasy — Karnacology

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

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John Michael Greer, whose powerful new book explores the psychological and social consequences of the peak oil crisis (Not the Future We Ordered) reflects