1st Edition

On Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Edited By Ethel Spector Person Copyright 2001
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

The sixth volume in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues," published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921).  In this classic text Freud offered an analysis of the roots of group identity, of the contagions of panic and fanaticism, and of the submission of the individual to the leader that... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) -- Discussion of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego -- Freud's Group Psychology -- Group Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Group -- Power and Leadership in Complex Organizations -- Groups and Fanaticism -- Group Psychology, Society, and Masses -- Freud's Group Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Culture

Biography

Ethel Spector Person is director and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.