Dignity Matters : Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives / by Susan S. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Susan S., author.

Contributor:

Levine, Susan S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Data processing.

Psychology.

Psychology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

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 of dignity as an ethical dimension of practice: in individual psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic work; in the therapeutic community; and in groups, organizations and nations. It outlines dignity in individual development and families, the role of dignity violations in the understanding and treatment of trauma, and how dignity and its violations can be a powerful force in conflict resolution. The book will also address dignity in relations to specific populations, with chapters on the African-American and the LGBT experiences. Listening, with the question of dignity in mind, offers a fresh non-pathologizing framework for the practitioner.

Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE A matter of dignity: building human relationships

CHAPTER TWO Some psychoanalytic reflections on the concept of dignity

CHAPTER THREE Philosophical perspectives: dignity as arche and dignity as telos

CHAPTER FOUR Dignity (1966)

CHAPTER FIVE Of whom shall we speak? Psychoanalytic reflections on dignity

CHAPTER SIX Psychoanalytic approaches to dignity in children and adolescents

CHAPTER SEVEN The dignity of one's experiences: dignity and indignity in the lives of LGBT people

CHAPTER EIGHT "I knew that my mind could take me anywhere" : psychoanalytic reflections on the dignity of African Americans living in a racist society

CHAPTER NINE You have to be carefully taught: dignity considerations in clinical practice, scholarship, and trauma treatment

CHAPTER TEN Kant you see? Viewing Hitchcock's Vertigo through the lens of dignity

EPILOGUE The dignity of persons needs to be affirmed, consistently, heartily

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91275-7

0-429-89852-5

0-429-47375-3

1-78241-496-7

9780429473753

OCLC:

940436700