Concern for others

by T. M. Kitwood

"Kitwood reappraises each of the main topics in the psychology of conscience--personhood, will, judgment, character, individual development, collective pressures, the good society--and shows that depth psychology, with its ideas about pre-conscious awareness, unconscious motivation, and unconscious conflict, is far more relevant to the field than has been previously recognized. He argues that the practices of counselling and therapy, which have emerged from depth psychology, epitomize a form of moral action of which contemporary western society is very much in need."--From publisher description.