Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society

Michael Maccoby, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and anthropologist who is a globally recognized expert on leadership. He has taught or consulted to leaders in 36 countries and has taught leadership at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Sciences Po, and Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is also the author/co-author of 16 books. Mauricio Cortina, MD, is a psychiatrist psychoanalyst who is recognized as a leading figure in attachment theory having received the 2019 Bowlby Ainsworth Award and has written many chapters and books on attachment and human evolution. He is the author and editor of four books.

Prologue, Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society, Michael Maccoby and Mauricio Cortina; 1: Leadership in Context, Michael Maccoby; 2: Our Prehistory as Egalitarian Nomadic Foragers with Antiauthoritarian Leadership: What These Nomads Can Teach Us Today, Mauricio Cortina; 3: Leadership – Charismatic or Inspiring? An Inquiry into Regressive and Developmental Forms of Leadership, Jon Stokes; 4: Changing Demands on Leadership, Charles Heckscher; 5: Leadership in the Industrial Workplace, Bob Duckles; 6: The Dark Triad May be Not So Dark: Exploring Why ‘Toxic’ Leaders Are So Common—With Some Implications for Scholarship and Education, Jeffrey Pfeffer; 7: The Surprising Resilience of Freud’s Libidinal Types and Their Influence on Leadership, Tim Scudder; 8: Aesthetics and Leadership, Rafael Ramirez; 9: Why People Lead and Others Follow: The Black Perspective, Robert L. Cosby and Janice B. Edwards; 10: How Paul Elovitz Used What He Learned About Childhood, Leadership, Listening, and Personality to Become a Presidential Psychobiographer of Trump and Biden, Paul Elovitz; Epilogue, Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society, Michael Maccoby and Mauricio Cortina