ABSTRACT
Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope offers a comprehensive overview of how the superego, the workings of our moral faculties, may be understood and clinically utilised in contemporary practice.
Drawing on the latest psychoanalytic thinking – as well as neurobiological, psychological and ethical perspectives- this book reinstates the superego as a central concept, and gives a clear guide to its importance in the modern world. In addition to the theoretical background of this construct, the contributors provide a clear guide to the importance of the superego in a range of pathological and everyday scenarios, and particularly in clinical settings.
With an emphasis on the wider social and cultural context, Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope will be of interest to trainee and qualified psychotherapists, social workers, youth offender and probation workers and ethicists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Theoretical and developmental considerations
chapter 4|16 pages
The neurobiological bases of human moralities
part II|78 pages
The role of the superego in different states of mind
chapter 5|16 pages
‘Sorry doesn’t make a dead man alive’
part III|50 pages
The superego in clinical contexts