Routledge Dissecting the Superego: Moralities Under the Psychoanalytic Microscope

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. Review "Dissecting the Superego is an exciting addition to the current literature on the superego. Freud first used the term ‘Uber Ich’ in 1923. This splended collection of articles illustrates how the idea of ’over the ego’ is alive and well in modern psychoanalytic thinking and in practice with child and adult patients. It also shows for example, how the concept is relevant to psychoanalytic training and the problems of training analysis. Altogether it is an excellent and rewarding read."-Bernard Barnett, author of You Ought To (2007) About the Author Celia Harding has worked as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice in East London, UK for over thirty years and is a Founder member of the Association for Psychotherapy in East London.