Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815361076
• ISBN13: 9780815361077
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"