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Perversion
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 31.95Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory... more...
Hidden Treasure
Karnac Books 2006; US$ 25.95Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander's first book, Windows To Our Children. Most of the books available in working with this population are written from a traditional 'play therapy' point of view. The Gestalt Therapy-based approach provides a more effective method for psychotherapeutic work with children of all ages. The focus is on the relationship... more...
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 22.95Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common. Part of the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series. more...
Coaching in Education
Karnac Books 2012; US$ 26.95Coaching in Education: Getting better Results for Students, Educators and Parents will support educational organisations to learn more about the current interest in coaching approaches within schools, colleges and universities. With chapters on coaching in primary schools and secondary schools, with students, staff and parents, this book provides... more...
Living on the Border
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 25.95This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation. Beginning with a discussion of the psychoanalytic... more...
The Transformational Self
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 25.95This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes associated with the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. The author introduces the concept of the 'Transformational Self', a phase-specific dimension of the neural self, and demonstrates the enhanced... more...
Deadly Desires
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 22.95During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at the Salpetiere. This book examines the emergence of hysterical discourse and its influence on women's writing, specifically focusing on the presentation... more...
Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 25.95How does one overcome the hardship of letting go of resentment in order to resume or establish a substantial bond with the traumatizing person, usually a parent, mindful of the fact that the experience of the self is rooted in those very same intimate relationships? The centerpiece of this book is forgiveness in intimate relationships and recovery... more...
Soul-Making
Karnac Books 2009; US$ 26.95'Donfrancesco examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst, and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is involved, understood and practised as an operation, a process which, particularly through the use of image, seeks to merge the individual and the general, subjective and objective, the psychological and the spiritual.... more...
The Analyzing Situation
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 26.95In this book Jean-Luc Donnet explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application' of knowledge. A modern conception of the analytic... more...









