Psychoanalysis Books at Karnac Books

Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst

To help patients with their affect intolerance, therapists need to tolerate, contain and manage their own feelings. This text shows how to work with more difficult patients in psychotherapy and... (more)

Working With Eating Disorders: A Psychoanalytic Approach

by Geraldine Shipton

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are increasingly prevalent in today's society and of great concern to a wide range of health-related professionals, including counsellors and... (more)

Harvesting Free Association

by Marita Torsti-Hagman

This book is about the fundamentals of free association. Working from a large amount of clinical material, it enables us to see how the problems of the symbolization process are created in the minds... (more)

On the Freud watch: public memoirs:

by Paul Roazen

"On the Freud Watch: Public Memoirs" opens and closes with autobiographical pieces, but the book as a whole reflects an intensely personal account of how Roazen became known as a "controversial"... (more)

Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas

Edited by Charles Levin, Mary Kay O'Neil

Linking general issues of privacy to the intimate details of psychotherapeutic encounter, this text should serve as a basic guide to a wide range of professionals, including lawyers, social... (more)

Real and Imaginary Fathers: Development, Transference, and Healing

by Salman Akhtar

In this work, Salman Akhtar looks at how many fathers unconsciously, and sometimes quite consciously, attempt to revise their own traumatized childhood by providing their children with possibilities... (more)

The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Edited by Robert A. King

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural... (more)

Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia

by Esther Sanchez-Pardo

A comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive... (more)

Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism

Edited by Sverre Varvin, Vamik D. Volkan

Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics. This important new work contributes a... (more)

Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis

Edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Jorge Canestri

A major challenge for the future of psychoanalysis as a science and as a profession, both in theory and in practice, is the ongoing development of conceptual, clinical and empirical research. This... (more)

We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of... (more)

Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism

by Ranjana Khanna

Sigmund Freud infamously referred to womens sexuality as a dark continent for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer's Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While... (more)

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

by Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concepts of rebellion and revolution. But is it still possible to build and nurture a... (more)

Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of Dis-ease

by Simon Wilkinson

Good clinical practice is impossible without an understanding of the ways in which patients present their complaints. Patients have their own styles of coping and of expressing their concerns, and... (more)

The Uncanny

by Sigmund Freud

Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The major pieces collected here explore the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often screen far more... (more)