Word: psychoanalyst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this sounds like a highly unorthodox analysis, it is, because Zaleznik, 57, is a highly unorthodox consultant. He is not only Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management at Harvard Business School and a private consultant of 30 years' experience, but also a certified psychoanalyst, one of a very few in the U.S. who have made a specialty of using Freud's teachings and techniques to put corporate employees-and sometimes entire corporations-on the couch. "To me," he says, "an organization is a working coalition among executives that can be disturbed by hidden emotional factors, like...
Zaleznik was already an experienced teacher, consultant and author of three books when he decided in 1958 to become a psychoanalyst. "I was very taken with the notion of unconscious motivation," he says. "This was the only field addressing itself to the problem." Licensed to practice in 1968, he was certified in 1975 by the American Psychoanalytic Association, a rare distinction...
DIED. Abram Kardiner, 89, American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the "environmental" school of psychiatry, which stresses the interplay of the psyche and culture, Kardiner once described Freud-his teacher and analyst in 1921 -as both a "genius," and "a regular...
DIED. Walter Langer, 82, Boston-born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide...
...episode, the Angels were even forced (horrors!) to take part in a Bunny-type beauty contest. Such fantasies might interest a psychoanalyst, but they could hardly arouse the censors. Angels acquired the keys to TV success: a reputation for sex without actually being erotic at all, and a reputation for controversy without actually saying much of anything...