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The focus of this article is on Frans Schalkwijk’s personal experience of working as a psychoanalyst, forensic reporter and researcher. His field of interest is the theory and functioning of the conscience, in his clinical work as well as in his work with delinquent juveniles. A new theory of conscience is presented and studied, con- science being treated as a psychic evaluation function in which the capacity for em- pathy, proneness to experiencing self-conscious emotions and moral awareness interact. In a further neuropsychoanalytic research project, shame, invoked in a karaoke setting, was studied in relation to sleep disorders. A plea is made for the aim of active corroboration with academic research.