Therapy & Practice
49 essays from the archive on therapy & practice.
Gavin Newby describes the development of Neuropsychotherapy, a new and emerging discipline
Neuropsychotherapy: emerging from the shadows Within the broader world of psychology and clinical psychology, neuropsychology has had a reputation for bein
Read the essayAlan Mulhern analyses how a subtle, powerful healing intelligence permeates the psyche
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy – Working with Darkness and Light The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my trai
Read the essayJackie Gerrard explores the wisdom of not knowing: ‘the answer is there are no answers’
The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist Brett Kahr came to hear my paper on Absence (Chapter 8) given at the London Centre for Psychot
Read the essayDonald Robertson explores the links between Psychotherapy and Philosophy
Psychotherapy and Philosophy What can philosophy tell us about therapy? There are many opportunities for dialogue between philosophers and psychotherapist
Read the essayJohn Marzillier discusses the origins of his highly acclaimed book, ‘The Gossamer Thread’
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist Years ago I started writing a novel in which a recently retired psychoanalyst is interviewed by a young
Read the essayDavid Buckley reflects on the interplay between religion and psychology
Where the Waters Meet: Convergence and Complementarity in Therapy and Theology In 1957 the art critic Carlton Lake (1915-2006) enjoyed a remarkably frank
Read the essayAndrew Samuels considers how therapy can transform politics
A New Therapy for Politics? Andrew’s new book, A New Therapy for Politics?, will be published by Karnac. Here he trails some of the ideas that are develop
Read the essayNick Duffell puts the Establishment on the Couch
The Establishment on the Couch: Analysing the politics of blame, fear, apathy and denial Psychotherapy and politics As Britain nervily approaches an unpr
Read the essayPsychoanalysis Online: Jill Savege Scharff discusses the impact of technology on development, training, and therapy
Technology, teleanalysis and teletherapy How does technology impact the human mind? Developmental, neuroscientific research and clinical experience confir
Read the essayThe Journey: My Time with Cancer, by Patrick Casement
Patrick Casement’s moving account of being diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma Preamble Ever since I came out of hospital (three years ago) I have several
Read the essayIntegrative Gestalt Practice: Transforming our ways of working with people, by Mikael Sonne and Jan Tønnesvang
A new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people’s lives Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new framework and form
Read the essayPaul Marcus on how humour is a serious business, in both therapy and life
Laughing with Two Rabbis and an Imam During my research for writing my book How To Laugh Your Way Through Life. A Psychoanalyst’s Advice (Karnac, 2013), I
Read the essayThe therapy relationship: A special kind of friendship, by Richard Hallam
The Bedrock of Therapy is our Shared Humanity As professions that are now firmly entrenched in society, psychotherapy and counselling are relative newcome
Read the essayAnorexia: A Plea for Better Treatment, by Sophia Gore
That’s the catch when you stop eating — food starts to eat you Writing The Rustle of a Wing: Finding Hope Beyond Anorexia has been both a challenge and a
Read the essayLove and Therapy: In Relationship, by Divine Charura and Stephen Paul
You are Good Enough In modern culture love has a prominent position. Television dramas, songs and novels as well as popular magazines all focus on love in
Read the essayWhy Dignity Matters, by Susan S. Levine
Write or Wrong: What Patients Tell Me About Dignity and Psychoanalytic Treatment “The talking cure.” These words were first uttered by Bertha Pappenheim,
Read the essayPsychiatric Rehabilitation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Recovery, by Dr Raman Kapur MBE
Therapeutic atmospheres can be created anywhere One flew into the cuckoo’s nest—but how do we help them get out? We are all familiar with the usual images
Read the essayDisability Psychotherapy: An Innovative Approach to Trauma
A Psychoanalytically-informed approach to helping and supporting people with disabilities This book represents a life-times work with people with learning
Read the essayTreating People with Psychosis in Institutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, by Belinda Mackie
How to Understand Institutions that Care for Patients There are many paths that offer an understanding of the experience of people with psychosis, and num
Read the essayThe Snake in the Clinic: Psychotherapy’s Role in Medicine and Healing, by Guy Dargert
Symptom as symbol: the metaphors of the soul’s true story Many psychotherapists and general medical practitioners subscribe to the popular understanding t
Read the essayINTO TA—Personal reflections, by Bill Cornell
The Evolution of Transactional Analysis The evolution of Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook proved to be quite an adventure. The roots of this book were in
Read the essayMentalizing in Arts Therapy, by Marianne Verfaille
Forging a link between arts therapies and mentalization-based treatment When clients work with nonverbal means such as art, movement or music in a way tha
Read the essayThe Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside In, by John C. Espy
Psychoanalysis is a psychic pilgrimage that reveals the depths of our loves and our depravities I thought long and hard about what to write for Karnacolog
Read the essayFighting Melancholia: What Don Quixote Teaches Us, by Françoise Davoine
The Therapist as Therapon: A Healing Sancho Panzo The success of Cervantes’ classic novel Don Quixote – reputed to be the second bestselling book after th
Read the essayRacist States of Mind, by Narendra Keval
Rationalism and Racism: how modern racism has its roots in the Enlightenment The aim of my new book, Racist States of Mind: Understanding the Perversion o
Read the essayBreathing as a Tool for Self-Regulation and Self
Living in the Breath: Breathing as a tool for professionals in health care, interpersonal work, teaching and guidance When introducing people to the breat
Read the essayThe Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope: A Systems Approach to Coaching, by Jenny Plaister
How Intercultural Understanding Enriches the Coaching Relationship My book, The Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope, was written over a period of four years, in a
Read the essayPortraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy, by Robert Snell
Entering the Analytic Frame: Psychoanalysis as Romantic Science Following the talk I gave at the Freud Museum on October 6 to celebrate the publication of
Read the essayTeaching the World to Sleep, by David R. Lee
Psychological and Behavioural Assessment and Treatment Strategies for People with Sleeping Problems and Insomnia Teaching the World to Sleep was written o
Read the essayPermission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture, by Martin Weegmann
The Origins of Permission to Narrate I’d just finished The World Within the Group (2014) and had several lines of research and chapter drafts that did not
Read the essayABOUT
Karnacology Karnacology provides knowledge and ideas for mental health professionals who practice talking therapies or any form of talking treatment in wo
Read the essayThe Therapy Womb, by Michael Eigen
Psychoanalytic Beauty and the Unborn Self I remember the first one-on-one session I had with a patient when I began training. I felt I could breathe in an
Read the essayART/THERAPY
Celebrating the creativity of the therapeutic process and the therapeutic nature of art The transformative power of the human imagination is central to th
Read the essayPhilosophy and psychotherapy (Part 2): Stoicism — Karnacology
The growing popularity of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and modern self-help literature has triggered renewed interest in the practical side of ancie
Read the essayPsychotherapy and philosophy (Part 1) — Karnacology
What can philosophy tell us about therapy? There are many opportunities for dialogue between philosophers and psychotherapists. In the past, there’s been i
Read the essayWhat life brings
One of the warming aspects of tragic happenings is the well wishes of others. In the case of Hurricane Sandy, this includes notes and calls received from p
Read the essayMastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
The possibility of failure is inherent in all learning and the further one has progressed in the process of learning, the greater the risk of failure can b
Read the essayThinking of Becoming a Counsellor?
I was prompted in part to write this book by a study in Counselling & Psychotherapy which discovered that more than eighty four percent of counsellors in t
Read the essayPsychotherapy and Spiritual Direction
Karnac Books: What made you write this book? Lynette Harborne: This book grew out of my experience as a psychotherapist, spiritual director, supervisor an
Read the essayHealing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
The origin of this book lay in a conference, while I was doing my training, in which some notable psychotherapists were giving an overview of the principle
Read the essayGestalt Therapy: Roots and Branches
A major starting point for the development of Gestalt Therapy from psychoanalysis was a specific understanding of self arising from contact. To put it (rel
Read the essayNeuropsychotherapy: emerging from the shadows — Karnacology
Gavin Newby describes the development of neuropsychotherapy, a new and emerging discipline. Newby is an editor of and contributor to a ground-breaking book
Read the essayLynette Harborne
Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction – Interview Lynette Harborne tells us all about the writing process of her book Psychotherapy and Spiritual Directio
Read the essayPeter Philippson on Gestalt Therapy
Karnac Books: What made you write this book? Peter Philippson: I have been developing an understanding of psychotherapy and the Gestalt approach over more
Read the essayIain McGilchrist: Interview
Iain McGilchrist explores the key themes of his book ‘The Master and His Emissary’ The Master and his Emissary is perhaps the most influential and signifi
Read the essayClark: RELIGION and SPIRITUALITY
Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psycholog
Read the essayGOODYEAR: Coaching People with A.S.
Bill Goodyear’s book offers hope to people with Asperger’s Syndrome the first book to take a coaching approach scandal of diagnosis without treatment a
Read the essayLeader: WHAT IS MADNESS?
What is Madness? Despite the best efforts of the mental health charities mental illness still has a very bad press in this country. This is particularly t
Read the essayHaney: REGULATION IN ACTION
It often comes as a surprise to many people, but in theory anybody can put a brass plaque on their door, an advertisement in the paper, and declare that th
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