Dr. Annie Reiner, Ph.D., Psy.D., L.C.S.W., is a respected psychoanalyst in Los Angeles whose work was greatly influenced
by British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion, with whom she studied in the 1970's.
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Despite the fact that societies throughout the world espouse beliefs in love, goodness and morality, there are wars all over the globe, wars within families and probably most importantly, wars within our own minds. Dr. Reiner's new book, The Quest For Conscience and The Birth of The Mind, explores the development of conscience as an innate human potential which, however, requires certain conditions in order to develop into what she calls a "mature" or "healthy" conscience. Without these conditions, the development of conscience is obstructed which, in her view contributes to the widespread compromises of conscience and morality.
by British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion, with whom she studied in the 1970's.
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Despite the fact that societies throughout the world espouse beliefs in love, goodness and morality, there are wars all over the globe, wars within families and probably most importantly, wars within our own minds. Dr. Reiner's new book, The Quest For Conscience and The Birth of The Mind, explores the development of conscience as an innate human potential which, however, requires certain conditions in order to develop into what she calls a "mature" or "healthy" conscience. Without these conditions, the development of conscience is obstructed which, in her view contributes to the widespread compromises of conscience and morality.
The Quest For Conscience and The Birth of the Mind examines love and morality from psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives, using clinical examples of patient's dreams to illuminate the ideas. It incorporates a spiritual perspective absent from classical psychoanalytic thought, but which the ideas of W. R. Bion brought into a central position in psychoanalysis.
