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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)
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)
Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory
Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and... (more)
Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women: Second Edition
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalytic technique and theories on femininity, sexuality and embodiment. Female Experience presents... (more)
The Neurobiological Basis of Violence: Science and Rehabilitation
In recent years, there has been an explosion of knowledge concerning the developmental processes that lead to persistent violent offending, and in particular, the neurobiological determinants.... (more)
Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective... (more)
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing... (more)
Ethics of Psychoanalysis
This book in one in a series aiming to foster psychodynamic thinking as well as academic knowledge of the origins, structure, historical development, philosophical orientations and problems of... (more)
The Interbrain: Connected Brains, Standoffish Minds, Conflicted Selves
Explaining his concept of 'the interbrain', a theory that our brains are emotionally connected and can share attention with each other, Tantam presents a new way of understanding empathy and the role... (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)
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)
Understanding Depression: A Translational Approach
Depression is a major cause of morbidity throughout the world. Given that between 8 and 12% of the population (in most countries) will suffer from depression at some point in their lives, it is... (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)
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)
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)