Guilt

Salman Akhtar, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College; Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.Jeanne Bailey, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society, Minneapolis, MN.Stanley J. Coen, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians, Surgeons, Columbia University; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, NY.Elio Frattaroli, MD, Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia; private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Bala Cynwyd, PA. Robert Kravis, PsyD, Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia; private practice of adult and child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Philadelphia, PA. Desy Safán-Gerard, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California, Los Angeles, CA.William R. Singletary, MD, President, Margaret S. Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia; private practice of adult and child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Ardmore, PA. Elaine Zickler, PhD, Faculty Member, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia; private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Philadelphia, PA.

This volume is a unique and comprehensive collection of writings on guilt, giving the reader important and clinically relevant insights into guilt not simply as an affect accompanying actual or wished – for transgressions, but as a moral regulator and compass. It will be of great use to psychotherapists at all levels of training and experience.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Guilt: An Introductory OverviewSalman Akhtar, MDChapter 2: Pinocchio's Journey to a ‘Good Heart’: Guilt, Reparation, and TransformationWilliam Singletary, MDChapter 3: Conscience and ‘The Uncanny’ in Psychoanalysis and in PinocchioElaine Zickler, PhDChapter 4: Bearable and Unbearable Guilt: A Kleinian PerspectiveDesy Safán-Gerard, PhDChapter 5: Guilt: Some Theoretical and Technical ConsiderationsRobert Kravis, PsyDChapter 6: Guilt in the Therapist and its Impact upon TreatmentStanley Coen, MDChapter 7: Reflections on the Absence of Morality in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice Elio Frattaroli, MDChapter 8: Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: a Concluding CommentaryJeanne Bailey, PhDReferencesIndexEditors and Contributors