Don Carveth
Emeritus professor, training and supervising psychoanalyst with extensive writing on conscience, guilt, and psychoanalysis; former Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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Sep 6, 2025 • 56min
Jesus Was The First Psychoanalyst
Don Carveth, emeritus professor and longtime psychoanalyst known for writing on conscience and guilt. He recounts shifting from Jung to Freud and his reconversion to faith. Conversation centers on biblical sources as psychoanalytic insight, the crucial distinction between loving conscience and persecutory superego, and how therapists can hold moral voice without moralizing.
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Sep 19, 2021 • 1h 15min
Melanie Klein: Introduction to Kleinian Theory 01
Dr. Don Carveth discusses Kleinian theory, contrasting it with Freud's ideas on anxiety and the superego. Dive into Freud's complex relationship with his mother, exploring artistic reparation, childhood disappointments, and mystical unity in psychology. Examine Freud's views on healthy religion and splitting in the mother image in psychoanalytic theories.
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Sep 3, 2023 • 49min
Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times with Don Carveth, PhD (Toronto)
Exploring the biological basis of conscience versus socially constructed values, emphasizing core ethics of life, truth, love, and kindness. Distinguishing between super ego and conscience in therapy, discussing empathy and sympathy. Speaker's dynamic relationship with God and conscience, challenges in psychoanalysis on unconscious processes vs. social constructivism, contrasting superego and conscience roles in deterring empathy.
