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Consuming Violence: forensic psychoanalyst John C. Espy on our fascination...
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-year-old boy, “They can’t prove anything because...
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Integrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming our ways of working with people,...
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 of practice for understanding and working with...
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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 population in the United Kingdom has an Autism...
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The Courage of Simplicity: Hanni Biran explores the central ideas in the work...
Psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group, and society The chapters of this book were written throughout a period of many years. The ideas they present are grounded in the thinking of...
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Analysing the Social Context of Individual Distress: Celebrating the...
David Smail: Clinical Psychologist, Sociologist, Philosopher, and Political Critic As Karnac Books republish four key works by the pioneering clinical psychologist, his son Alastair reflects on his...
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The Enigma of Childhood: How our earliest relationships profoundly shape all...
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 happiness. You may find you are one of those...
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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 relations since 1979 and have visited many...
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‘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 Guillermo Montero. With the background of a...
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The Vicissitudes of Totemism: Gérard Lucas explains how our changing view of...
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 First World War, the age-old practice of totemism,...
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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 became sensitized to how people use...
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Magic, Storytelling and Childhood: the origins of Rensal the Redbit, by...
‘Once Upon An Analysis…’ The psychoanalytic voyage of discovery is probably impossible to capture in words. If every analysis is unique, the signature of each human mind more identity-laden and...
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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 entities, magnificent in their indefiniteness. In our...
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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 newcomers. However, wanting to help another in...
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Image, Sense, Infinities, and Everyday Life : Acts of Shared Faith, by...
‘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 introducing her three-year-old son to the...
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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 chance to take something good out of the misery...
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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 two questions have much in common. Every society...
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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 its many forms. Is love the answer to...
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Pink Herrings: Love and Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Practice, by Damien W. Riggs
Plato, Lacan, and the Myth of Incompletion According to Plato, in Greek mythology humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearful that such humans would become too...
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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 author write about a particular subject, whether...
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The Psychomatrix: A Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain, by...
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 haunted me for many years. Pain! What is it...
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