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The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Charles B. Strozier

    1. Sangamon State University, Springfield, USA
      Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, USA

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  2. Daniel Offer

    1. Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 3-8

    3. Leaders in Ancient Times

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 9-19

    4. The Heroic Period in Psychohistory

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 21-39

    5. Sigmund Freud and History

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 41-48

    6. Erik H. Erikson, Ego Psychology, and the Great Man Theory

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 49-58

    7. The Growth of Psychohistory

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 59-71

    8. New Directions

      • Charles B. Strozier, Daniel Offer
      Pages 73-78

  3. Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Lincoln and the Crisis of the 1850s

      • Charles B. Strozier
      Pages 81-110

    3. The Transformations in the Self of Mahatma Gandhi

      • Hyman Muslin, Prakash Desai
      Pages 111-132

    4. Woodrow Wilson Revisited

      • Joseph A. Bongiorno
      Pages 133-178

    5. Mirror Image of the Nation

      • Thomas A. Kohut
      Pages 179-229

    6. Achievement and Shortfall in the Narcissistic Leader

      • James A. Walter
      Pages 231-263

    7. Leaders and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

      • Marvin Zonis, Daniel Offer
      Pages 265-298

  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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    2. Reflections on Leadership

      • Daniel Offer, Charles B. Strozier
      Pages 301-311

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 313-324
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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 mysteriously change with the perspective of the critic. From the outside, psychohistorians are to academic history what psychoanalysts are to academic psychology: a monolithic band of fanatics, making the same errors, committing the same offenses, aH in the same way. But seen close up, psychohistorians (just like psychoanalysts) turn out to be a highly differentiated, even a cheerfuHy contentious, lot. Disciples of Hartmann jostle discoverers of Kohut, imperialists claiming the whole domain of the past debate with modest isolationists, orthodox Freudians who insist that psychoanalysis engrosses the arsenal of psychohistorical method find themselves beleaguered by sociological revisionists. The charges that confound some psychohistorians glance off the armor of others. Yet there are three potent objections, aimed at the heart of psy­ chohistory, however it is conceived, that the psychohistorian ignores at his periI. It would be a convenient, but it is a whoHy unacceptable, defense to dismiss them as forms of resistance. The days are gone when the advocates of psychoanalysis could checkmate reasoned critidsms by psychoanalyzing the critic. To summarize these objections, psychohistory is Utopian, vulgar, ix x FOREWORD and trivial.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sangamon State University, Springfield, USA

    Charles B. Strozier

  • Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, USA

    Charles B. Strozier

  • Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Daniel Offer

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