Obituary of Abraham Zaleznick

This obituary of Abe Zaleznik,  was written by Prof Manfred Kets de Vries:

Professor Abraham Zaleznik (Abe) of the Harvard Business School, a pioneer in the study of leadership and applied psychoanalytic organizational consultation, died November 28 in Boston at the age of 87.

To quote Voltaire, *To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.* After working through the grief, I had to consider how to honor Continue reading Obituary of Abraham Zaleznick

In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

 

Click Here to Read: In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 By Juli Weiner in Vanity Fair on December 15,  2011.

Click Here to Read: Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62 By William Grimes in the New York Times on December 16, 2011.

Click Here to View: Christopher Hitchens delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA  on YouTube.

 Click Here to Read:  The Tenth Man ; The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy on the Tablet website on December 19, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Regarding Christopher by Katha Pollitt on The Nation website on December 19, 2011.

 

Joyce McDougall 1920-2011

CLick Here to Read: Joyce McDougall obituary, Psychoanalyst who argued that human sexuality is inherently traumatic by Christine Miqueu-Baz  in the Gardian on October 24, 2011.

Joyce McDougall first became interested in psychosomatic illness when she regularly developed a rash when she stayed at her grandparents’ house as a child. She realised the presence of her grandmother was causing the symptom.