This article presents the clinical work with an ecclesiogenic neurosis and the difficulties encountered by the therapists working with very religious patients. In contrast to the few existing studies of this topic, the Author emphasizes the necessity to take into account the difference between the conscience and the superego, if the therapy is to be effective. The article focuses on the present...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers' agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical "coalfaces". Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting an...

The constant, free, unlimited and ubiquitous availability of photographic images via the Internet since beginning this millennium has overwhelmed thereby weakened individual observer’s capacity for differentiation evaluation image quality content. replaced physical library as premier limitless repository anything everything. was once hallowed pantheon intellectuals; librarians were “gate keeper...

o Kohlberg's stages of moral development o Discussion of Kohlberg's stages 5 and 6 o Are women's values different from men's values? o Selecting your guiding principles § Table 3.1: Ways of living § Table 3.2: Your life goals § Table 3.3: Desired personal characteristics o Self-centered vs. others-centered o Conscience and escape from one's own conscience o Pitfalls: bypassing our own moral sta...