Leaders’ inner strength

Psychoanalysis of leadership

  • Andrey Vladimirovich Rossokhin
Keywords: psychoanalysis, leadership, leadership theories, executive coaching, unconscious, business psychology, management, organization, internal dialogue, internal conflict, business consulting

Abstract

The article presents a new concept of leadership, which is based on a psychoanalytic understanding of the professional personality development. Becoming a mature leader in the external reality is impossible without acquiring an internal mature leadership Self and its persistent development. The psychoanalytic dynamics of internal leadership is described in detail, and it is shown that the inevitable internal conflicts are not only limitations and obstacles to professional growth, but, on the contrary, represent the necessary conditions for the origination and development of a mature leadership Self. In this case, the latter should take over the functions of the director-manager of the internal theater, in which, against the background of a fundamentally ineradicable conflict confrontation between the two main characters – the leader-manager and the leader-hero – a constructive internal dialogue between them emerges and develops.

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Author Biography

Andrey Vladimirovich Rossokhin

Rossokhin Andrey V., Titular member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP), Doctor of Science* in Psychology, Professor, Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis and Business Consulting at the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Head of the Master's Programs "Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy" and "Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Business Consulting", member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), President of the Moscow Psychoanalytical Association (MPA), Honorary President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting (APCBC), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysisthe Association of Psychoanalytic Coaching and Business Consulting (APCBC).

* Doctor of Sciences. A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Published
2023-07-12
How to Cite
RossokhinA. V. (2023). Leaders’ inner strength. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 162-174. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/17619
Issue
Vol 4 No 2 (2023): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS