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Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation
Karnac Books 2008; US$ 25.95'This book arises out of an important international conference held in March 2006 to discuss how regulation by the state has affected psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline in many different parts of the world. There were participants and papers from Europe and beyond: from Africa; from both North and South America; from Asia; and, of course, from... more...
Passion for the Human Subject
Karnac Books 2008; US$ 26.95Working as a psychoanalyst to help a patient establish better bonds between the different registers of his psyche does not imply giving in to unifying, globalizing, simplifying, or isolating illusions, but rather requires that we never lose sight of the heterogeneity (including the irremediable differentiation of the sexes) which is just what Freud's... more...
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought
Karnac Books 1987; US$ 27.95A volume of six public lectures given in 1956 as part of the celebrations of the centenary of Freud's birth, organised by the British Psycho-Analytical Society. more...
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Karnac Books 1986; US$ 51.95The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. C.G. Jung, in his introduction, says that it "opens at the very place where I unwittingly made landfall on the new continent long ago, namely the realm of matriarchal symbolism: and the author uses a symbol whose... more...
Love, Hate and Knowledge
Karnac Books 2010; US$ 29.95This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. The field has been in debate for decades regarding what constitutes psychoanalysis. This usually centers on theoretical ideals regarding analyzability, goals, or procedure and external... more...
But at the Same Time and on Another Level
Karnac Books 2009; US$ 37.95'This work is organized as a primer and handbook, a "beginning", to elucidate general principles on how the psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist may optimally provide and maintain the setting for the psychoanalysis, listen to and process the analysand's or patient's free associations, and ultimately intervene with interpretations... more...
But at the Same Time and on Another Level
Karnac Books 2009; US$ 37.95'This volume describes in detail my impression of specifically how to understand and to interpret in an analytic session. The reader will note that I present clinical sessions in stenographic detail and display complete sessions. It will be noted that I do not include past history but do make reference to it when it is necessary to understand the text.... more...
Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind
Karnac Books 2008; US$ 21.95"Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind" is a review and an explanation of Jung's thought set in an evolutionary context. Jung explored the human psyche throughout his long life. His writings, of astonishing scope and depth, elaborate on imagery that can be found in rituals, myths and fables worldwide as well as in the dreams, visions and fantasies of his patients... more...
Making Freud More Freudian
Karnac Books 2010; US$ 21.95This book demonstrates the clinical value of "making Freud more Freudian". The theoretical contributions of Charles Brenner are summarized and emphasized. They are built on an elaboration of Arlow's "fantasy function" and Freud's "compromise formation". The author applies this theoretical perspective in elaboration of the concepts of narcissism, masochism,... more...
Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 26.95Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of... more...









