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Life After a Partner’s Suicide Attempt Francis McGivern “For a partner or family member, a loved one who wants to die is both absent and present. Dr. Francis McGivern is the first to apply the theory of ‘ambiguous loss’ to understand and analyse the unimaginable stress experienced by the partners of those who attempt suicide. I highly recommend this book for clinicians and researchers, and I thank Dr. McGivern for his pioneering work in this new area of ambiguous loss.” Dr. Pauline Boss, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota and author of The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
“While suicide is still a rare event, suicide attempts and self-harm are not. Insufficient attention has been paid to the partners of those who attempt to end their lives. Dr. McGivern is to be commended for bringing their needs to the fore. He proposes a recovery pathway for this hitherto neglected group. His book is sensitive and thoughtful, timely and therapeutic.”
September 2021 Paperback, £19.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-34-6
Professor Jim Lucey, Consultant Psychiatrist at St Patrick’s University Hospital and author of A Whole New Plan for Living
“When a person attempts suicide, the world often falls in around their partners and families. Surprisingly, this book is the first scholarly attempt to let partners speak about how that traumatic event impacted them. The stories told here reveal an often life-altering maelstrom of relief, grief, disbelief, doubt, care, exhaustion, exasperation, worry, loneliness, ongoing fear and roller-coaster love that requires huge resilience to navigate. Yet there is hope and help as Dr. McGivern’s seminal work convincingly charts – opening up a neglected landscape for recognition and discussion.” Dr. Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland and Professor of Children, Law & Religion, University of Glasgow
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Dr Francis McGivern is a counselling psychologist chartered by the Psychological Society of Ireland. He works in both the public sector within a Higher Education Institute as well as running a small private practice. He has over 20 years’ experience of providing psychotherapy to adults and adolescents.
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Unlocked
Online Therapy Stories Anastasia Piatakhina-Giré “This is first-rate storytelling; these tales of therapy entirely drew me in and left me wanting more. A most impressive debut collection.” Irvin Yalom, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University
Unlocked tells the stories of ten different people in therapy in various cultural and geographical contexts – from Saudi Arabia to Venice or New York. Each narrative explores a unique presenting situation and uncovers the complexities of the therapeutic experience. All therapeutic work described in this book happens online. Inspired by real client sessions, the therapist narrator and the clients’ stories are fictionalised. Rather than presenting a barrier Unlocked demonstrates how a curious and skilled therapist can make the most of the unexpected gifts that the ‘screen’ offers – be it the intrusion of a pet, a parent breaking into the session, or a client taking her therapist for a ride outside. Therapeutic conversations that happen on the screen have a surprising close-up quality; these stories convey the renewed intimacy and intensity of such practice and present new possibilities for the therapeutic process. They will be of interest not only to therapists who are transitioning their practice online but also to those considering therapy or curious about the therapeutic process.
November 2021 Paperback, £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-42-1
Anastasia Piatakhina-Giré is accredited with the UK Council for Psychotherapy and European Certificate of Psychotherapy. She has practised therapy for a decade, with clients online around the world and in four languages. She is a faculty member of the Online Therapy Institute, London and lives in Paris, France.
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Present with Suffering Nigel Wellings and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it? There is something about everything that makes it not quite satisfactory. Even things we really love are spoilt by not being quite enough or by going on too long. People entering psychotherapy want to feel better – more authoritative, less anxious or depressed, more whole – and although the therapeutic process can help, an enormous amount of difficult and painful emotions continue to arise. Even after years and years of therapy many of us feel that there is no ‘happy ever after’. Present with Suffering shows that by becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way with chapters addressing loss, bereavement, emptiness and impermanence.
November 2021 Paperback, £12.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-44-5
Contents 1. Introduction 2. Suffering in loss and bereavement, by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick 3. Emptiness, by Nigel Wellings
Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author who works within a broadly contemplative perspective. He has been engaged with the relationship between psychotherapy and Buddhism for the last forty years.
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Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has a professional background in social psychiatry, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, sensorimotor psychotherapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy. For many years she has had an interest in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness.
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Freud’s Pandemics
Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis Brett Kahr In this compelling book, the first in the new Freud Museum London Series, Professor Brett Kahr describes how Sigmund Freud endured innumerable emotional pandemics during his eighty-three years of life, ranging from unsubstantiated accusations by medical colleagues to anti-Semitic abuse, the loss of one daughter to Spanish flu and the arrest of another child by the Gestapo, to his own painful cancer treatments and his final flight from Adolf Hitler’s Austria. Freud navigated these personal and political tragedies while simultaneously creating a method of healing which has helped countless millions deal with unbearable trauma and distress. Kahr argues that Freud not only saved himself from destruction but also provided the rest of the world with the means to achieve a form of psychological vaccination against emotional and mental distress.
September 2021 Paperback, £40 ISBN: 978-1-913494-51-3
The Freud Museum London and Karnac Books have joined forces to publish a new book series devoted to an examination of the life and work of Sigmund Freud alongside other significant figures in the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and depth psychology more broadly. The series will feature works of outstanding scholarship and readability, including biographical studies, institutional histories, and archival investigations. New editions of historical classics as well as translations of little-known works from the early history of psychoanalysis will also be considered for inclusion. For submissions, please contact Professor Brett Kahr: Kahr14@aol.com.
Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health in the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psychology at Regent’s University London. He serves as Consultant Psychotherapist at the Balint Consultancy and as a Trustee of the Freud Museum London and the UKCP
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Resilience and Survival
Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma Clara Mucci Resilience stands at the limits of what it is to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it encompasses qualities that are both relational and innately enforced. In this unique book Clara Mucci investigates how resilience can be fostered to create stronger individuals and societies. Mucci explores contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches to intergenerational trauma and identifies the key principles that can foster resilience and healing. She looks not only through the prism of attachment theory and developmental neuroscience but also explores the power of art, memoir and other frameworks, showing that acts of compassion and forgiveness contribute to building and reinforcing resilience and solidarity.
November 2021 Paperback, £12.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-10-0
Contents Introduction 1. RESILIENCE AND SURVIVAL: Understanding and healing intergenerationally transmitted trauma 2. THE HUMAN PACT: Trauma of human agency as the first reason for the break of trust among humans 3. ATTACHMENT: As interpersonal vehicle of transmission and mediation of trauma 4. ATTACHMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA OF THIRD LEVEL: Genocide 5. THERAPY WITH SURVIVORS OF HUMAN AGENCY: To heal and redeem the human pact REFERENCES INDEX
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Clara Mucci teaches Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo in Italy and is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of several books including Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma and Borderline Bodies.
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The Unanswered Self
The Masterson Approach to the Healing of Personality Disorder Candace Orcutt “In this unique blend of academic scholarship and clinical wisdom, Candace Orcutt compellingly describes the pioneering and seminal work of James Masterson on a spectrum of personality disorders. As the highly informative text and rich case material demonstrate, his writings were clearly ahead of their time, and thus his psychotherapeutic contributions are perhaps even more relevant today.”– Dr Allan Schore, University of California at Los Angeles and author of Right Brain Psychotherapy
“In this remarkable book Dr. Orcutt has created a masterful synthesis of the past fifty years of the clinical field, especially relevant to the treatment of personality and major dissociative disorders. The last chapters on dissociated parts and unacknowledged trauma are brilliant.”
September 2021 Paperback, £44.95 ISBN 978-1-913494-32-2
Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and senior author of Attachment Disturbances in Adults
“Dr. Orcutt’s brilliant, creative mind is more than evident in her new book, The Unanswered Self. Her profound level of understanding of the works of Freud, Masterson, Winnicott and other psychodynamic and developmental theorists, and her deep knowledge of the impact of trauma on the developing self, stand at the heart of this book. A synthesis of these varied approaches culminates in original answers to some very old, and very deep, clinical and theoretical questions.” Judith Pearson, Ph.D., Director, The International Masterson Institute
Candace Orcutt, MA, PhD, holds a doctorate in Clinical Social Work and is a certified psychoanalyst and widely published author. She teaches at the New Jersey Institute for training in Psychoanalysis. For twenty years she worked as an associate of James F. Masterson.
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Children in Lockdown Learning the lessons of pandemic times
Edited by Christopher Arnold and Brian Davis This timely and relevant book focuses on the societal impact of the pandemic on children and the educational, social and psychological services that function to support them. It acknowledges the constant change and adaptation required in real time and provides the basis for a start to the discussion about the effects of COVID-19 on families and everyone involved with ‘school life’. Essays include reflections on the impact of lockdown on children and the lessons to be learned, with contributions from children, parents, teachers, educational psychologists and social workers in the UK and worldwide.
Author royalties for this book will be donated to Alder Hey Children’s Charity.
Christopher Arnold is the Principal Psychologist at Psychological Services GB Limited. He is an academic and professional tutor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and is on the editorial board of the BPS’ Debate periodical for educational psychologists. Christopher has also been an educational advisor to the European Union. He has authored and edited numerous books, papers and conference presentations.
November 2021 Paperback, £39.99 ISBN: 978-1-913494-53-7
Brian Davis is currently the Director for Child, Community and Educational Psychology Professional training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He has a particular interest in supporting organisational level responses to challenge and change. His research interests include the development of quality Educational Psychology practice and continuing professional development; professional training; the promotion of positive outcomes for children and young people; and the building of resilience in the community through strategic and multi-agency working.
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M O R E T I T L E S F R O M C O N F E R A N D K A R N AC B O O K S
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
How it Feels to be You
The Race Conversation
Adam Phillips
Tamsin Cottis
Eugene Ellis
ISBN: 9781913494384
ISBN: 9781913494285
ISBN: 9781913494261
Learning from the Unconscious
The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Edited by Christopher Arnold,
What is Normal? Edited by Jane Ryan and Roz Carroll
Dale Bartle and Xavier Eloquin
Steven Kuchuck
ISBN: 9781913494230
ISBN: 9781913494148
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century
Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco
ISBN: 9781913494049
Mary-Jayne Rust ISBN: 9781913494124
ISBN: 9781913494209
Nick Totton
ISBN: 9781913494186
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