1st Edition
Dignity Matters Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives
By Susan S. Levine
Copyright 2016
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores an ethical value central to all mental health professions. Although "dignity" appears near the beginning of many codes of ethics, it has been largely unexamined in the professional literature. Potter Stewart famously declared about pornography that we can't define it but we know it when we see it. Likewise with dignity. This book addresses that gap. The book considers the role... Read more
Introduction , A matter of dignity: building human relationships , Some psychoanalytic reflections on the concept of dignity , Philosophical perspectives: dignity as arche and dignity as telos , Dignity (1966) , Of whom shall we speak? Psychoanalytic reflections on dignity , Psychoanalytic approaches to dignity in children and adolescents , The dignity of one’s experiences: dignity and indignity in the lives of LGBT people , “I knew that my mind could take me anywhere”: psychoanalytic reflections on the dignity of African Americans living in a racist society , You have to be carefully taught: dignity considerations in clinical practice, scholarship, and trauma treatment , Kant you see? Viewing Hitchcock’s Vertigo through the lens of dignity , Epilogue
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Susan S Levine
