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Insight and Interpretation
Karnac Books 2003; US$ 27.95Insight and interpretation are crucial tools of the psychoanalytic process that have been neglected and misunderstood in recent psychoanalytic literature where the focus has shifted to the effects of countertransference on the relationship between patient and analyst. Roy Schafer brings these tools back to the forefront of psychoanalytic thinking,... more...
Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer
Karnac Books 2002; US$ 27.95Introduction 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 not only spark the reader's interest in these fascinating, yet complex, themes but also encourage readers to deepen their knowledge of them. more...
Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy
Karnac Books 1998; US$ 31.95The focus of this book is a series of detailed descriptions of clinical work with children. The contributors seek to understand their patients' problems by drawing upon a fundamentally psychoanalytic orientation. Their approach is influenced by recent advances in the understanding of infant development. more...
Unimaginable Storms
Karnac Books 1994; US$ 37.95A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses... more...
Therapy or Coercion
Karnac Books 1997; US$ 37.95This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration' should be the aim of psychoanalysis, and - furthermore - that actions can be judged ethical or unethical according to whether they foster or hinder integration. more...
Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 31.95Traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann and the ego psychologists, and Hanna Segal and the contemporary Kleinians of London. 271 pages. more...
The Search for the Self
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 35.95'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he... more...
Understanding Freud
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; US$ 9.05The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Understanding Freud is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the life and work of Sigmund Freud. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover Freud's model of the mind, learn about... more...
On Freud's "Negation"
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 29.95Ever since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak. Or, perhaps, it is better to term such mental contents as the presence in the form of absence. These two ways of conceptualizing Freud's negation... more...
Aggression
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 25.95This book is a result of the 2nd International Psychoanalytic Conference: "Aggression: From Fantasy to Action", held in May 2010.It contains papers that were delivered to the conference, together with edited summaries of discussions from the floor that followed each paper. The standard of the papers given was extremely high. What was noticeable from... more...









