Synopses & Reviews
Behind every leader is an instructive life story. It often promotes a public image that inspires others to live by it. And, sometimes, even to live or to die for it. As leadership qualities and image issues gain significance in the public discourse, the psychological study of leadership is a critical factor in any discussion. With its trenchant insights into leaders past and present,
The Leader: Psychological Essays, Second Edition, updates a pioneering text in this field and provides a solid basis for ongoing dialogue on this important subject.
Within the context of the ever-evolving disciplines of psychoanalysis and psychodynamics, this thought-provoking volume examines the lives of several prominent leaders from ancient Greece through the start of the 21st century. The authors explore how these leaders imposed their individual missions and mystiques on others, thereby fulfilling - and, sometimes, creating - distinct needs in their followers.
Synopsis
This volume examines the lives of prominent leaders from ancient Greece to the present. It explores how these leaders imposed their individual missions and mystiques on others, thereby fulfilling , and sometimes creating, distinct needs in their followers.
About the Author
Charles B. Strozier has a Harvard B.A., an M.A. and a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has training as a research candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalytic training at TRISP in New York City.
Table of Contents
Dedication.- Preface; C.B. Strozier.- Acknowledgments.- Part One: The Past.- Leaders in Ancient Times: Joseph, Plato, Alcibiades; D. Offer, C.B. Strozier, O. Abdyli.- Freud and His Followers; C.B. Strozier, D. Offer.- From Erik E. Erikson to Heinz Kohut: Expanding Theories of Leadership; C.B. Strozier; O. Abdyli.- Part Two: Studies.- Lincoln and the Crisis of the 1850s: Thoughts on the Group Self; C.B. Strozier.- Mirror Image of the Nation: An Investigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II's Leadership of Germans; T.A. Kohut.- Osama Bin Laden: The Man and the Myth; B. Lawrence.- Redemptive Narratives in the Life and the Presidency of George W. Bush; D.P. McAddams.- Paranoid Leadership; D.M. Terman.