The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays

The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays edited by Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer.

PETER GAY The syllabus of errors rehearsing the offenses of psychohistory looks devastating and seems irrefutable: crimes against the English language, crimes against sdentific procedures, crimes against common sense itself. These objects are real enough, but their contours-and their gravity­ myster...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Strozier, Charles B. (Editor), Offer, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1985.
Edition:1st ed. 1985.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychology.
Industrial psychology.
Behavioral sciences.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Perspectives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Leaders in Ancient Times: Joseph, Plato, and Alcibiades
  • 3. The Heroic Period in Psychohistory
  • 4. Sigmund Freud and History
  • 5. Erik H. Erikson, Ego Psychology, and the Great Man Theory
  • 6. The Growth of Psychohistory
  • 7. New Directions: Heinz Kohut
  • II: Studies
  • 8. Lincoln and the Crisis of the 1850s: Thoughts on the Group Self
  • 9. The Transformations in the Self of Mahatma Gandhi
  • 10. Woodrow Wilson Revisited: The Prepolitical Years
  • 11. Mirror Image of the Nation: An Investigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Leadership of the Germans
  • 12. Achievement and Shortfall in the Narcissistic Leader: Gough Whitlam and Australian Politics
  • 13. Leaders and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
  • III: Conclusion
  • 14. Reflections on Leadership.

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