ASK AN AUTHOR

Our authors include Iain McGilchrist, Michael Eigen, Oliver James, Brett Kahr, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Margot Waddell, John Michael Greer, Alison Miller, Meg Harris Williams, Brent Potter, Lene Austead, Andrew Samuels, Nick Totton, Joseph Berke, Darian Leader, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, as well as many others.

What Ask an Author Was

Ask an Author was Karnacology’s standing invitation to readers: send in a question for any author on the Karnac Books list, and the site would put it to them. It grew out of the same conviction as the bookshop itself. That the people writing psychotherapy’s books should be in conversation with the people reading them, not sealed off behind their spines.

Read the Conversations That Came Out of It

The spirit of the feature survives in the site’s interview archive. Which remains one of the richest parts of Karnacology:.

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• Brett Kahr and Ilonka Venier Alexander — in conversation about Winnicott and family history.
• Ernst Falzeder and Brett Kahr — on Freud, Ferenczi, and the craft of psychoanalytic scholarship.
• Peter Rudnytsky on Nina Coltart — a portrait of “the Jane Austen of psychoanalysis.”
• Lynette Harborne — on psychotherapy and spiritual direction.
• Peter Philippson on Gestalt therapy — roots and branches of the Gestalt tradition.
• Richard Hill interviews Brent Potter — from the Mindsight TV series.

Many of the authors named above also appear elsewhere in the archive. McGilchrist in a major interview on The Master and His Emissary, Meg Harris Williams in the ART/THERAPY series, and Darian Leader in our review of What Is Madness?. This page is preserved as part of the original site. The ask-a-question service itself is no longer running.