1st Edition
A Psychodynamic View of Action and Responsibility Clinical Studies in Subjective Experience
Introduction
1 Two Kinds of Responsibility
2 Psychology of Self-deception
3 Two Kinds of Conscientiousness
4 The Self-control Muddle
5 Will, Will Power, Free Will
6 Neurotic Styles
7 Schizophrenia
8 Saying Something Is Doing Something
9 Voluntary Surrender of Responsibility
Conclusion
Biography
David Shapiro is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research in New York City and practices psychotherapy in New York. He previously practiced psychotherapy in Los Angeles and taught at the School of Social Welfare, UCLA. He is the author of Neurotic Styles, Autonomy and Rigid Character, Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character, and Dynamics of Character.
"Ever since his classic book Neurotic Styles, I have followed each new work by David Shapiro with eagerness, and I have never been disappointed. Few writers in our field come close to his ability to capture the nuances of subjectivity and the painful consequences of our efforts to blur that subjectivity in order to gain short-term comfort. In an age of psychotherapy by acronym, he offers us instead an engagement with each patient’s humanity."-Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.
