Ideology, Conflict,

and Leadership
in Groups and
Organizations

Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

Yale University Press

New Haven and London
Copyright © 1998 by Otto P. Kernberg.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kernberg, Otto K, 1928-

Ideology, conflict, and leadership in groups and organizatons /
Otto K Kernberg,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-07355-0 (alk. paper)
I. Organizational behavior. 2. Group psychoanalysis. 3. Social
groups. 4. Political psychology. 5. Psychoanalysis— Study and
teaching. I. Title.
HD58.7.K465 1998
158.2'6— dc2i
97 - 3^793
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To the memory o f Ignacio Matte-Bianco o f Santiago, Chile, and o f Ernst Ticho,
o f Vienna, Austria, my friends and teachers