This must-have Second Edition is indispensable reading for researchers, professors, and graduate students across many disciplines, including political psychology, psychoanalysis, history and political science, psychiatry, anthropology, and personality and social psychology. It is important reading for anyone with an interest in the life stories of leaders past and present and how they affect our world even long after they are gone. Addresses the fundamental psychodynamic issues of leadership. Draws contributions from fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, political science and history as well as psychiatry, anthropology and other related fields. Provides a unique historical overview of the subject. Offers examples of the psychology of leadership. Emphasizes the current research in psychoanalysis. INDICE: Dedication. Preface; C.B. Strozier. Acknowledgments. Part One: ThePast. 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-8385-5
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 175
- Fecha Publicación: 12/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés