Psychoanalysis Books at Karnac Books

Sexual States of Mind

A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, forty-five years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with... (more)

The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training

by Martha Harris, Esther Bick

This is one of a new two volume edition of Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, which includes some papers not published in the first edition. The companion volume, Adolescence, by... (more)

In Pursuit of Psychic Change: The Betty Joseph Workshop

Edited by Edith Hargreaves, Arturo Varchevker

The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the... (more)

Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory

Edited by Noreen Giffney, Eve Watson

Clinical Encounters in Sexuality makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an effort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality from a... (more)

Sex Now, Talk Later

by Estela V. Welldon

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘bizarre’? As Estela Welldon argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove... (more)

When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia

by Christopher Bollas

Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic... (more)

Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Edited by Alessandra Lemma, Paul Lynch

Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains... (more)

Imaginary Existences: Dream, Daydream, Phantasy, Fiction

by Ignes Sodre

Imaginary Existences interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and... (more)

Psychoanalytic Listening: Methods, Limits, and Innovations

by Salman Akhtar

'Joseph Breuer’s celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. However, the... (more)

The Significance of Dreams: Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis

Edited by Peter Fonagy, Horst Kachele

This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud’s insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern... (more)

Reading Winnicott

Edited by Lesley Caldwell, Angela Joyce

Reading Winnicott brings together a selection of papers by the psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, providing an insight into his work and charting its impact on the well being of... (more)

Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches

Edited by David Tuckett

How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and... (more)

Shame and Jealousy

by Phil Mollon

A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac. Here, shame and jealousy are examined as hidden turmoils; as basic human feelings found in... (more)

Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations

Edited by James S. Grotstein, Donald B. Rinsley

This work brings together the work of the most eminent of Fairbairn's followers. It includes sections on child abuse, infant development, and borderline and narcissistic disorders. Contributors... (more)

The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis

by Antonino Ferro

This book sets out a new a new conceptual system for analysis based on the inner world of the patient and its interaction with the inner world of the the analyst. Ferro takes a fresh look at... (more)

Toxic Nourishment

by Michael Eigen

A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and the way they lead their lives. The author describes the analyses leading to de-programming these patients from their toxins and intoxicators.... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy

Edited by Anne Hurry

Many books have recently appeared on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, but relatively few have dealt specifically with problems of technique and with the theory that informs those techniques. It is... (more)

Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach

Edited by Caroline Garland

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event.... (more)

Character Styles

by Stephen M. Johnson

Johnson shows how basic life issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorder, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of the character styles.... (more)

Clinical Seminars and Other Works

by Wilfred R. Bion

This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to... (more)

Transformations

by Wilfred R. Bion

Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which Bion commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of... (more)

Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers

by Donald W. Winnicott

The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)

Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality: Collected Papers

by W.R.D. Fairbairn

The classic work on object relations, which bases its understanding of human development upon the infant's innate need for relationships. (more)

Normality and Pathology in Childhood: Assessments of Development

by Anna Freud

Anna Freud's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual phenomena... (more)

“Dear Institute…”: Candid Commentaries From Candidates in Psychoanalytic Training

Edited by Himanshu Agrawal

This book is a collection of commentaries by 40 psychoanalysts-in training spanning across 29 different countries, shedding light on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis- its training, practice... (more)

Forensic Psychoanalysis: From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers

by Brett Kahr

Forensic Psychoanalysis examines the traumatic psychological origins of violence and explores the ways in which such disasters can be prevented and treated.

The book encapsulates Professor Brett... (more)