Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations

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In this book a psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician of world renown shows how the interplay of libidinal and aggressive impulses enacted within the dynamic unconscious of the individual also occurs in groups and social organizations. This understanding can help to resolve conflicts at the group and institutional levels, says Dr. Otto Kernberg, and he proposes a model for achieving effective institutional change.


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In this book a psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician integrates current knowledge of the psychodynamics of individuals, groups, and organizations into a new theoretical framework. Otto F. Kernberg shows how the interplay of libidinal and aggressive impulses enacted within the dynamic unconscious of the individual also occurs at the level of groups and social organizations. He sheds new light on the turbulent nature of human interactions in groups, suggests how this understanding may help resolve conflicts at the group and institutional levels, and provides a model for achieving effective institutional change.


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