Dissecting the Superego

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 â 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. . Language: English