| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 154 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1 An introduction to the malignant narcissist leader: a psychological autopsy of Bishop Frederick Ladysmith-Jones -- 2 Assessment of the malignant narcissist leader: clinical features, selected psychodynamic epidemiological items, and interdisciplinary observations -- 3 Sympathy for the devil: application and limitations of the malignant narcissist diagnosis -- 4 The patho-dynamics of totalitaria: how mad leaders form followers and gain ascendance -- 5 A totalitarian sampler: the mad leader in context of the cultic organization -- 6 The perversion of utopia: malignant narcissist leaders and the transcendental -- 7 Zeiders and Devlin dialogue: etiology, sexuality, and a primal horde of horrible insights useful for research -- Index |
| Summary |
"Using psychodynamic theory and riveting case material, this book dissects the figure of the malignant narcissist leader (MNL). Across the world today, individuals and societies are impacted by unprecedented disruptive influences, from globalization and climate change to economic uncertainty and mass migration. The rise of populists and would-be saviours have promised certainty for anxious populations, but how far are such leaders suffering from the MNL pathology? Through the psychoanalytic lens of Otto Kernberg, the authors explain the etiology of the charismatic MNL's clinical features: charisma, grandiosity, criminality, sadism, and paranoia. The book outlines the limitations and complexity of diagnosis, contextualizing the MNL within the transcendental and millenarian movements, and discusses the patho-dynamics of high-pressure groups and totalitarian regimes, including: types of groups, methods of mind control, categories of constituents, the corporate totalitarian state, and the authoritarian demagogue. The book looks at a wide range of leaders including Donald Trump, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Roger Ailes, Keith Raniere, Jan of Leiden, and Credonia Mwerinde. Distinguishing the disordered personality of the MNL from other personality disorders, and presenting a new model of overlapping descriptors to categorize high-pressure group types and identifying types of followers as well, this book represents essential reading for psychodynamically-minded psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, sociologists, political scientists, and those working in organizational development"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Charles Zeiders, PsyD, is the T.S. Eliot Lecturer for Humanities and Spiritual Psychology, Reformed Episcopal Seminary in metropolitan Philadelphia, USA. A clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr. Zeiders is an expert clinician and psychopathologist. His books include The Clinical Christ, Faith, Forensics, and Firearms, as well as volumes of depth-psychological poetry. Peter Devlin, LGSW, is a psychotherapist at Capitol Hill Consortium in Washington, DC. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MSW from the University of Southern California. His research interests include trauma and the psychology of power |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Narcissism -- Case studies
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Leadership -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
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Control (Psychology) -- Case studies
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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Control (Psychology)
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Leadership -- Psychological aspects
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Narcissism
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Devlin, Peter, 1961- author.
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| LC no. |
2019044280 |
| ISBN |
9780429298950 |
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0429298951 |
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9781000024760 |
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1000024768 |
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9781000024807 |
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1000024806 |
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9781000024784 |
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1000024784 |
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