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Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis
In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, David Garfield establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and... (more)
The Coach's Mind Manual: Enhancing Coaching Practice with Neuroscience, Psychology and Mindfulness
The Coach's Mind Manual combines the latest findings from neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness research to provide an accessible framework to help coaches and leadership development specialists... (more)
Swings and Roundabouts: A Self-Coaching Workbook for Parents and Those Considering Becoming Parents
The first two authors of this coaching workbook are themselves parents who have been on a journey of “swings and roundabouts” – experienced the highs and lows of having children. Having difficulties... (more)
Psychological Processes of Childbearing
Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the... (more)
On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted... (more)
Systematic Desensitisation for Panic and Phobia: An Introduction for Health Professionals
Panic disorder and phobia are difficulties that are commonly encountered in our consulting rooms. There is an ongoing debate concerning the lack of provision within the NHS to help those with mental... (more)
The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism
This book explores the concept of “pre-conceptual trauma”, drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals:... (more)
The Recovered Voice: Tales of Practical Psychotherapy
What happens in psychotherapy and when it is helpful? With twelve case reports covering the most frequent disorders requiring psychotherapy, the prominent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and... (more)
Handbook of Narrative Psychotherapy for Children, Adults, and Families: Theory and Practice
The Handbook Narrative Psychotherapy for Children, Adults and Families combines philosophical, scientific and theoretical insights in the field of narrative psychotherapy and links them to sources of... (more)
Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology
Where the Waters Meet offers the reader a new way of viewing an old subject. So often psychology and counselling therapies have been, and still are, seen as competitors, or even enemies, vying for... (more)
Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts
This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and... (more)
Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergencies
The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and they share their wild journeys with... (more)
Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life
The art of living the “good life” requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life.
Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and... (more)
The Creation of the Self and Language: Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World (+ DVD)
'This book, with its accompanying DVD, "NOW I AM A REAL KID" has made it possible for us to witness what David Rosenfeld’s treatment of Benjamin, a young boy with a diagnosis of autism, was actually... (more)
Awakenings
Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent... (more)
Loss, Grief and Transformation: The Therapist's Personal Experience in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
This book is a timely and relevant book for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who process loss both in their own lives and in the lives of their patients, offering perspectives from a range of... (more)
The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film’s... (more)
Mad or Bad?: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology
A cutting-edge text that provides a comprehensive introduction to mental health problems and criminal behaviour, this book explores the link between mental health and criminality and considers the... (more)
Coaching in Islamic Culture: The Principles and Practice of Ershad
This book is the result of a collaboration between two authors who share a passion and commitment for coaching. Its aim is to enthuse readers and provide guidance about the appropriate use of... (more)
JCFAR 24: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Contents:
SAM PALMER - Editorial
ROBERTO HARARI – What Varies and Deviates a Lacanian Clinical Practice?
SLAVOJ ZIZEK – Events through ISR
DIANA VORONOVSKY – What it Means to Talk in... (more)
Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles Through Freud to Cocteau
When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle - he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about... (more)
Consulting to Chaos: An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice
In clinical work, an awareness of patients’ subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and... (more)
Plurality and Perspective in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological... (more)
Neuropsychoanalysis Vol.15 No.2
An Interdisciplinary journal for Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences. This journal is also available electronically: http://karnacbooks.metapress.com (more)
A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis
This is a practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions. The book... (more)
Our journey through high functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome: A roadmap
The families of children with autistic spectrum disorders describe the ways autism has affected their daily lives, the challenges they have faced and the approaches they found beneficial. (more)
Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies
Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies advocates for contextualising of clinical thinking and experience within a social and political framework that acknowledges the importance of... (more)
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and... (more)
Intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore... (more)
Forensic Psychology
Drawing on psychological theory and research, this text outlines the core roles of the forensic psychology profession, providing students with a broad overview of the field and bringing to life the... (more)