Karnac Books - Böcker

We are each a part of many different groups, teams, and organisations in our lives - this is unavoidable. Groups are powerful - we want to belong, and yet there is something dangerous about becoming too enmeshed with groups. We have painful histor...

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Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: 'Who is speaking? To whom? About what? And why now?' We speak with...

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In Christopher Bollas' Streams of Consciousness, a wide spectrum of theory and practice are explored, sometimes appearing in simple fragments, sometimes via complex lines of thinking that are developed in detail over time. As Bollas revisits the r...

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This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have encountered a victim of complex mind control and ritu...

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It is important to point out that these essays are about character¿types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What the...

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Since the introduction of psychoanalysis, radical paradigm shifts have occurred in philosophy, science, mathematics, and the arts. How we exchange information, how we interact on the global stage, and how we conceive of ourselves as citizens have ...

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Inspired by many successful years of teaching to analysts in training, Franco De Masi has selected the most significant lessons and added a few new ones to provide an enriching discussion of psychopathology and psychoanalytic clinical work. Lesson...

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The Self and Autism is a piece of original research into maturation in infancy and its psychopathology. Michael Fordham was the first to introduce the idea that the self, previously considered realizable only in later life, could be experienced by...

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Talking Cure shows how the mind operates through all stages of life. Drawing on Tavistock Clinic research and case studies, it demonstrates just how much "the heart has its reasons the reason knows not of". Providing insights into many a...

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A description and explanation of a neo-lacanian child analysis.Dr. Mannoni, a leading proponent of the theories of Jacques Lacan and a prominent child psychologist in her own right, holds that the psychoanalysis of children is a process in which t...

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The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. Erich Neumann undertakes to show that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stage...

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Papers celebrating forty years of the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies.The Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies began life as teh Family Discussion Bureau in 1948, and has since developed into a centre of advanced study and practice commit...

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The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application.

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Includes his classic overview of symbolism.

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This book attempts to answer questionings by practitioners from various humanistic-existential approaches, such as transactional analysis, Gestalt therapy, person-centred approach, Ericksonian hypnosis, psychosynthesis, psycho-organic analysis, an...

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The introduction of psychoanalysis to China over the last twenty years brings a clash between Eastern and Western philosophical backgrounds. Chinese patients, therapists and trainees struggle with assumptions inherent in an analytic attitude steep...

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This book looks at how our brains, minds, bodies, and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality, and how we can create a sense of sexual self-esteem and a nutritious sexual diet for ourselves. As the author notes in her Introduction,...

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