Psychoanalysis Books at Karnac Books

Studies on Femininity

Studies on Feminity is the second volume in a unique series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical... (more)

The Embodied Female is the first volume of this series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association. This book... (more)

The Elusive Child

Edited by Lesley Caldwell

'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of... (more)

Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process

Edited by Mauricio Cortina, Mario Marrone

Attachment theory, the brainchild of child psychiatrist and psychoanalysis John Bowlby, has begun to have a worldwide impact among clinicians who are taking the attachment theory and research... (more)

Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Edited by Kelly Oliver, Steve Edwin

This is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer... (more)

Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer

by Silvia Fano Cassese

Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work. This detailed volume should... (more)

Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence

Edited by Coline Covington, Paul Williams

Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was "What would make anyone do such a thing?" The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping... (more)

Key Papers on Countertransference: IJP Education Section

Edited by Robert Michels, Liliane Abensour

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs.... (more)

Love and Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Edited by David Mann

Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. "Love and Hate" explores the origins of love and hate from infancy and how they... (more)

Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power

Edited by Beth J. Seelig

Constructing and Deconstructing Woman’s Power explores power and gender issues from a variety of psychoanalytic, as well as social, cultural and philosophical perspectives. The first three papers... (more)

Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona

Edited by Donald Meltzer

This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (more)

Phobia: A Reassessment

Edited by Sian Morgan

This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.

This book should illuminate... (more)

Dilemmas in the Consulting Room

Edited by Helen Alfille, Judy Cooper

Every therapist is faced with dilemmas in the consulting room. While psychoanalysis has concentrated on the issues of theory and technique, there has not been much material available on the actual... (more)

Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society

by Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin

This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and... (more)

The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment

by Rik Loose

Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how... (more)

Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective

by Steven J. Ellman

This landmark book is a brilliant commentary on Freud's psychoanalytic technique and how it is incorporated in contemporary clinical practice. Freud's basic technique papers are included, so that the... (more)

The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems

Edited by Joseph D. Lichtenberg, James L. Fosshage

This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a... (more)

Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy

by Patrick Bracken

This volume argues that there are serious problems inherent in contemporary conceptualizations of how people react to trauma and the therapeutic responses developed. Drawing on anthropology,... (more)

Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience

by Jurgen Reeder

Acknowledging the influence of such thinkers as Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Ricour Jurgen Reeder charts his own course in this 'exploration into my own standpoints'.

At the heart of this book is... (more)