Ronald C. Naso, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy and conducting neuropsychological evaluations for over twenty years. He is currently on the consulting faculty of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, where he teaches and supervises in the Doctoral Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship programs.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 IntroductionPart 3 Part I: Topographies of TransgressionChapter 4 Chapter 1: The Paradox of HypocrisyChapter 5 Chapter 2: The Call of ConscienceChapter 6 Chapter 3: Perversion and Moral ReckoningPart 7 Part II: The Ethics of InauthenticityChapter 8 Chapter 4: Compromises of IntegrityChapter 9 Chapter 5: Beneath the MaskChapter 10 Chapter 6: Youthful IndiscretionsPart 11 Part III: From Hypocrisy to Moral AmbiguityChapter 12 Chapter 7: Dissociation as Self-DeceptionChapter 13 Chapter 8: Multiplicity and Moral AmbiguityChapter 14 ConclusionPart 15 Bibliography

Through striking clinical examples and painstaking analysis, Naso documents hypocrisy’s emergence as a form of compromise against the backdrop of ambiguity and moral dissonance that virtually defines postmodern sensibility. Masterfully exposing the vital pull of the field without negating individual agency, he nests hypocrisy in a search for attunement that goes far in explaining its ubiquity in human affairs and its enactment in the consulting room by client and therapist alike. Hypocrisy Unmasked illuminates the intersection of two-person psychology and contemporary ethics in ways that will enhance our capacity to negotiate moral uncertainty, both in our patients and ourselves.