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Encountering Silencing

Buchholz
Karnac Books Limited
268 pages
ISBN: 9781800132412
April 2024

This book is an invitation to closely observe the very practices and processes of silencing used by perpetrators of abuse and totalitarian institutions alike. A carefully selected group of contributors reveal the dark side of communication that silences victims, witnesses, and perpetrators: women, religious heretics, gifted children, victims of racism, psychoanalytic dissidents, and psychiatric patients; individuals and groups, total strangers and one's family members, as well as one own self. All of these forms of silencing are analysed with the help of literature, historiography, interviewing, archival research, and psychoanalytic and family therapy.

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The Soft Power of Culture

Art, Transitional Space, Death and Play

Sklar
Karnac Books Limited
312 pages
ISBN: 9781800132481
April 2024

Psychoanalysis is a valuable tool to add to the sciences and the arts: all contain unconscious hidden depths that can become insight and understanding and contribute to humanity as culture. Using the prism of art, music, and storytelling, Jonathan Sklar takes psychoanalytic thought to a wide audience to enable a greater understanding of humanity.

In Short

In Short

Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst

Salman Akhtar
Karnac Books
162 pages
ISBN: 9781800132467
February 2024

This wise, uplifting book has 111 'proto-essays' on a wide range of subjects. Akhtar’s meditations touch upon mental health, humor, death, animals, Freud, religion, children, and so much more. The author’s aim is to further the cause and message of his beloved psychoanalysis.

On the Destruction and Death Drives

On the Destruction and Death Drives

André Green, translated by Steven Jaron
Karnac Books
176 pages
ISBN: 9781912691647
April 2022

André Green was a key figure in contemporary psychoanalysis, who embraced philosophy and an international outlook to enhance psychoanalytic theory. This book was one of his last works, originally published in French as Pourquoi les pulsions de destruction ou de mort? in 2012. Green's defence of one of Freud's most daring revisions of his drive theory remains relevant to psychoanalytic work today, and it is an honour to bring this excellent translation to the English-speaking world.

Gender Dysphoria

Gender Dysphoria

A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Susan Evans
Karnac Books
272 pages
ISBN: 9781912691784
April 2021

This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria. The model uses a psychoanalytic framework to help explain disturbed states of mind and how psychic defences can be enlisted unconsciously to avoid overwhelming psychic pain. This offers professionals a way of trying to think with, and offer understanding to, their trans identifying clients.

Conversations

Conversations

Christopher Bollas
Karnac Books
204 pages
ISBN: 9781800132474
December 2023

The author of this book presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: 'Who is speaking? To whom? About what? And why now?' We speak with the voice and position of many others - mothers, fathers, siblings, teachers - and ordinary conversation therefore stages the history of our interpersonal engagements. Heimann's questions also apply when we talk to ourselves, and our inner dialogues reveal the hidden genius of our private world in which we are both actor and audience, poet and reader, politician and electorate. It's quite a ride, and an art form all of its own.

Bion

Bion

An Introduction

Nicola Abel-Hirsch
Karnac Books
152 pages
ISBN: 9781912691838
March 2023

This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to Bion and his work. The author’s lightness of touch, whilst retaining the necessary depth, makes it a joy to read. Bion and his work can be somewhat enigmatic but Abel-Hirsch's understanding offers the ideal introduction to the man and his work.

Ecotherapy

Ecotherapy

A Field Guide

David Key, Keith Tudor
Karnac Books
192 pages
ISBN: 9781915565020
April 2023

This book presents an extensive review of the field of ecotherapy that unearths a number of ambiguities in the way this therapy is understood and described. The review explores six themes derived from a critical analysis of the findings: human and nature; therapy and therapeutic; wilderness and wild; physical and meta-physical; culture and indigeneity; and the skin-bound self and the ecological Self.

Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons

Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons

Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities

Louis Rothschild
Karnac
296 pages
ISBN: 9781800132382
November 2023

This book serves as a critique of gendered rigidity, where a case is made for a social surround that declares mutual vulnerability to exist in a state of permanent inquiry and relational curiosity. Such openness can function to aid parents, clinicians, and respective community members to privilege the development of increased frustration tolerance. By extension, a good-enough father is one who recognizes breakdown, a need for refueling, and possesses and practices a willingness to encounter uneven rhythms in human dimensions.

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Freud's Pandemics

Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis

Brett Kahr
Karnac Books
300 pages
ISBN: 9781913494513
September 2021

In this timely new work, Professor Brett Kahr presents a narrative of Sigmund Freud’s own personal struggle with many near-death experiences. But in spite of the numerous difficulties which Sigmund Freud had to navigate across his lifetime, he persevered with the living of his life. Having found Freud’s lust for survival to be quite inspiring, Professor Kahr shares the richness of Freud's inner world, offering access to the unique insights and capacities of the father of modern psychology and showing how psychoanalysis can help us all to survive, and even to thrive, during the very worst of times.

Grandmotherland

Grandmotherland

Exploring the Myths and Realities

Judith Edwards
Karnac
288 pages
ISBN: 9781913494773
January 2024

This guide looks at how the meme of the grandmother is affected by personality, culture, tradition and ‘norms’ and considers how psychoanalytic insights may help us understand this territory of life.

Lover, Exorcist, Critic

Lover, Exorcist, Critic

Understanding Depth Psychotherapy Paperback

Alan Michael Karbelnig
Karnac
268 pages
ISBN: 9781800131965
September 2023

This book dives deeply into the history of psychoanalysis, examining the cultural and historical context from which it emerged, and explaining how it evolved into a more vitalising methodology. The author exposes the inner workings of depth psychotherapy using the innovative perspective of three distinct social role analogies.

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Bion's Vertices

On Truth and Lies

Tomasz Fortuna
Karnac
392 pages
ISBN: 9781800132115
January 2024

This book intended for the practicing psychoanalyst, is divided into three parts which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies, and show its relevance in clinical practice. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, knowledge, representation, misunderstandings, chaos, perversions, propaganda, the analyst's mind, the protective function of lying, and racialisation in relational context.

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Unlocked

Online Therapy Stories

Anastasia Piatakhina Giré
Karnac Books
224 pages
ISBN: 9781913494421
April 2022

This book tells the stories of ten different people in therapy in various cultural and geographical contexts – from Saudi Arabia to Venice or New York. All therapeutic work described in this book happens online. Rather than presenting a barrier, Unlocked demonstrates how a curious and skilled therapist can make the most of the unexpected gifts that the ‘screen’ offers―be it the intrusion of a pet, a parent breaking into the session, or a client taking her therapist for a ride outside.

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Analysis and Exile

Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud

Vivian Heller
Karnac Books
288 pages
ISBN: 9781913494360
January 2022

This is the story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud and one of the 20 students invited to attend her experimental school in 1920s Vienna. While Anna Freud tries to teach him how to overcome his fears, Peter's native Vienna slides into Fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world. To tell this story, Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father's case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive.

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Children in Lockdown

Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times

Christopher Arnold, Brian Davis
Karnac Books
252 pages
ISBN: 9781913494537
November 2021

This timely and relevant book focuses on the societal impact of the pandemic on children and the educational, social and psychological services that function to support them. It acknowledges the constant change and adaptation required in real time and provides the basis for a start to the discussion about the effects of COVID-19 on families and everyone involved with ‘school life’. Essays include reflections on the impact of lockdown on children and the lessons to be learned with contributions from children, parents, teachers, Educational Psychologists and Social Workers in the UK, Italy, Singapore and South Africa.

Blue Diamond Healing

Blue Diamond Healing

Exploring Transpersonal and Transdimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy

Phil Mollon
Karnac Books
288 pages
ISBN: 9781913494636
August 2022

This book provides a hypothetical map of dimensional levels and structures, combining psychology, physics, metaphysics, cosmology, and spirituality, all in one far-reaching framework. The ‘Blue Diamond’ functions as an energy centre allowing access to higher dimensions that therapists can draw upon to heal the problematic patterns at lower dimensions. The book provides a sophisticated but concise outline of energy psychotherapy and the place of the Blue Diamond within it, including sections on best practice and the ethical aspects of this unique and powerful healing method.

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Present with Suffering

Being With The Things That Hurt

Nigel Wellings, Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
Karnac Books
208 pages
ISBN: 9781913494445
November 2021

Seen through the lenses of Buddhism and psychotherapy, the authors explain that within the bleakness of loss arises the possibility that pain and grief can be transformed into something new, more bearable and ultimately liberating. - Dr Sarah Eagger MB,BS, FRCPsych, Chair of the Janki foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare, former Consultant Psychiatrist at Imperial College London

What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it? People entering psychotherapy want to feel better, but even after years and years of therapy many of us feel that there is no ‘happy ever after’. This book shows that by becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way. Chapters consider the discomfort associated with loss, bereavement, emptiness and impermanence.

False Self

False Self

The Life of Masud Khan

Linda Hopkins
Karnac Publishing
560 pages
ISBN: 9781913494827
November 2022

Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, M. Masud R. Kahn (1924-1989) exposed the bigotry of his proponents-turned-detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Kahn grew up in a world of privilege radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London, where we was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished people of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller and many more. Kahn's subsequent downfall reveals not only his psychic fragility but also the world of intrigues and deceptions in the psychoanalytic community of the time.

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Darkness Was My Candle

An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

Lora DeVore
Karnac Books
360 pages
ISBN: 9781913494490
April 2022

This profound and compelling memoir traces Lora DeVore’s life as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking, illegal pharmacological drug research, and institutional abuse. Having experienced such horrifying and traumatic events, how did she survive? And to what purpose? Seeking the resolution to these unanswered questions, Lora’s experiences illuminate and validate the power of love and the strength of the indomitable human spirit that lives within each one of us.

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Contented Couples

Magic, Logic or Luck?

Anne Power
Karnac Books
224 pages
ISBN: 9781913494469
May 2022

In Contented Couples, Anne Power interviews eighteen couples in the USA and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it work. Woven through the book are expert, jargon-free explanations from an experienced psychotherapist of how couples form a bond, how they fight and how they repair. Each chapter ends with questions which invite us to reflect on our own relationships and to benefit personally from this chance to eavesdrop on contented couples. Almost all the couples interviewed have faced major challenges along the way – but their attachment grew, and relationships survived. In this book they tell us why.

Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst

Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst

The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972

Linda Hopkins, Steven Kuchuck
Karnac Publishing
400 pages
ISBN: 9781913494650
November 2022

Masud Khan (1924-1989) was an eminent and, ultimately, scandalous British psychoanalyst who trained and practised in London during an important period in the development of psychoanalysis. From August 1967 to March 1980, he wrote his 39 volume Work Books, a diary containing observations and reflections on his own life, the world of psychoanalysis, his evolving theoretical formulations, Western culture, and the turbulent social and political developments of the time. In this first volume, readers will find fascinating entries on Khan's colleague and mentor Donald Winnicott and other well-known analysts of the period, including Anna Freud.

One Tree, Many Branches

One Tree, Many Branches

The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Bozena Merrick, Di Gammage
Karnac
348 pages
ISBN: 9781800132207
September 2023

Subjects discussed in this book include ecopsychotherapy, autism, the lack of male psychotherapists, working with refugees, racial trauma, female genital mutilation, working in closed communities, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The book is essential reading for all who work with children and opens up exciting and pioneering new approaches for meeting the multifarious needs of our children and adolescents today.

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Sex in the Brain

A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy

Janice Hiller
Karnac Books Limited
136 pages
ISBN: 9781913494889
April 2024

This book gives an overview of what happens in the brain during the development of romantic and sexual relationships, from the intense emotions accompanying the early stages of a new relationship to kissing, touch, arousal, orgasm, commitment, parenting, infidelity, breaking up or staying together. With advanced imaging techniques and hormone testing methods, neurotransmitters and brain regions in humans can now be investigated, allowing researchers to describe the complex neural patterns that enable us to feel desire, exhilaration and commitment to a partner. This book is for anyone keen to learn more about their own responses and interactions with a partner.

Food Matters

Food Matters

Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Salman Akhtar, Nina Savelle-Rocklin
Karnac
260 pages
ISBN: 9781800132023
September 2023

Food Matters investigates the significant role that food plays in all of our lives and is divided into three major sections: Mostly biological, Mostly psychological, and Mostly sociological. 'Mostly' because biology, psychology, and sociology are not hermetically sealed subject areas and overlaps into other fields are to be expected.

Leading with Depth

Leading with Depth

The Impact of Emotions and Relationships on Leadership

Claudia Nagel
Karnac
268 pages
ISBN: 9781800132290
September 2023

This book guides the reader through the emotional and relational fallacies of organisational leadership from both the personal and the systemic perspective.

Flourishing Love

Flourishing Love

A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relationships

Enrico Gnaulati
Karnac
244 pages
ISBN: 9781800132085
October 2023

In this book, Dr. Gnaulati uses the latest science, anecdotes from his own 30-year marriage as well as from his psychotherapy practice, the musings of ancient and contemporary philosophers, and real-life interviews from partners in long-term happy marriages and intimate unions are all used to reveal the secrets to a successful romantic partnership.

Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis

Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis

From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth

Brett Kahr
Karnac
344 pages
ISBN: 9781800131903
September 2023

In this book, the author draws upon extensive unpublished archival sources and upon his four decades of oral history interviews to write portraits of many of the icons of mental health such as Enid Balint, Marion Milner, Ronald Laing, John Bowlby and his wife, Ursula Longstaff Bowlby, as well as numerous members of Donald Winnicott's family.