Bernard Barnett is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Training analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He is a former Chairman of the Institute's Education Committee. He was for many years the Director of Psychological Training at the Child Guidance Training Centre and later at the Child and Family Dept. of the Tavistock Centre which he left in 1988. Since then he has been in full-time private psychoanalytic practice.
The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar... (more)