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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 that focuses specifically on affect regulation and...
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Perversions and Paraphilias: Sergio Benvenuto asks what the concept of...
Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis Many deny that perversions exist. Even despite the fact that today’s dominant psychiatry has re-baptized them as paraphilias — a name change attributable to...
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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 Karnacology regarding my book, Clinical Dicta and Contra...
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How Marcel Proust taught me how to detect a sadomasochistic game, by Hendrika...
Perversion serves a Purpose Helene, an intelligent hardworking woman in her mid forties, mother of three, twice divorced, seeks treatment. She considers herself ‘unable to grow up’. Notwithstanding her...
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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 family itself. While this is the arena in which I...
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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 the Bible – is no doubt due in large part to the...
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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 in the title of her article (‘War: A core issue...
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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 fulfils a very important role in helping...
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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. World superpowers, rogue nations, and...
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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 of Curiosity and Concern, was to observe and...
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Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of...
How early traumatic experiences, and our primitive responses to them, become embedded in our personalities We live in fascinating times, where recent advances in trauma theory, attachment theory,...
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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 he kept a diary of its eccentricities and odd...
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The Language of Distress: Understanding a Child’s Behaviour, by A.H. Brafman
The Unconscious Language of Symptoms As is well known, each specialist approaches his patients concentrating on his particular field of work. If his investigations result negative, he can only try to...
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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 in London I felt I had a real and exciting...
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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 religion, delving deeply into the competing...
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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 to do my PhD in philosophy. One day Henry gave...
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Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside, by Cosimo Schinaia
Containing the Containers: The Evolution of the Analytic Space All photographs © Sebastian Zimmermann, ‘Fifty Shrinks‘ The quality of the analytic relationship and the space in which such a...
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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 keep insanity out of view, but tries to offer...
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False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity...
The Objectified Body as a Transitional Object in Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorders False Bodies, True Selves: Moving Beyond Appearance-Focused Identity Struggles and Returning the the True Self is...
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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 breathing school method, I have often started by...
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