Reinhard Fatke

Unconscious emotional impulses are at the center of the development of a child's conscience. Those who wish to understand these impulses and help children educationally or therapeutically must be able to empathize with their way of thinking and processing experiences. Hans Zulliger, the prominent Swiss child psychotherapist, educational advisor, and psychoanalytic educator, analyzes the paths and pitfalls of conscience formation through concrete case stories. He places particular emphasis on the integration of conscience development into the education for the capacity to love, as well as on misguided conscience reactions such as compulsion to confess, tendencies toward self-punishment, obsessiveness, pseudodebility, and gang formation. Zulliger's work on dealing with the child's conscience is presented here in a new edition, introduced and accompanied by an editorial report from the editor Reinhard Fatke.