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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-10-20 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70073

John R. Paddock

{"title":"Leaders Who Can Be Told No","authors":"John R. Paddock","doi":"10.1002/aps.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Courageous leadership serves socio-cultural selfobject functions at scale. Kohut named three such functions: mirroring, idealizing, and twinship. Leaders who supply them accurately help a people feel seen, internalize strength without illusion, and belong without fusion. Anti-selfobject leadership supplies the same experiences in a form that forecloses transmuting internalization, so followers leave the transaction needing the leader more rather than less. This essay develops that distinction and then turns to the demand side, drawing on Freud, Bion, Kohut's paper on charisma, Volkan, and Fromm to show how unconscious group process leads populations in distress to recruit destructive leaders. Six capacities appear alongside their counterfeits: integrity, humility, an inquiring spirit, empathic attunement, cognitive complexity, and reflective perseverance. A seventh capacity organizes the rest. Courageous leaders consent to be optimally frustrating rather than magically satisfying, and they tolerate being told no by people they could destroy. The essay answers two objections. On the Goldwater problem, it makes no diagnostic claim about any public figure, yet it holds that clinicians may, and sometimes must, describe destructive public conduct and its effects. On the partisanship problem, it offers content-neutral criteria that apply symmetrically across the political spectrum. A closing section covers clinical implications, including moral injury among people who complied with directives they believed were wrong, which a composite clinical vignette illustrates, and the countertransference pressures analysts now face. The examples come from the United States, but the processes this essay describes belong to group and self psychology generally.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149222753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Masochism and Metatext in Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths 马丁·麦克唐纳《七个精神病患者》中的受虐狂与元文本

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-19 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70071

Farzad Kolahjooei

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Isolated Inside and Outside: A Study of Malayalam Film Bhoothakalam as a COVID Film 隔离内外：马拉雅拉姆电影Bhoothakalam作为COVID电影的研究

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-09 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70070

Malavika Ajikumar

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Into Large Language Models 机器人会梦见电子羊吗？对大型语言模型的精神分析探究

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70069

Mustafa Selek

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Japanese Co-Sleeping Practices Challenge French Migrant Mothers' Cultural Representations of Childcare 日本同睡习惯挑战法国移民母亲的育儿文化表征

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-01 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70067

Anne-Sophie Mpacko, Yoko Hamada, Akiyoshi Okada

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Relational Resistance and Psychic Capture: Objects, Gestures, and Intersubjectivity in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 关系抵抗和精神俘获：奥威尔《一九八四》中的对象、姿态和主体间性

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-29 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70068

Bernardo Cartas-Bandeira

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Migrant Mothers as “Maestras”: Work Discussion Groups and Parent–Infant Psychotherapy in New York City 作为“大师”的移民母亲：纽约市的工作讨论小组和亲子心理治疗

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70066

Talia Hatzor, Alberto Manzi

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Ethics in Mental Health Under Political Violence: The Case of Palestine 政治暴力下的心理健康伦理：巴勒斯坦案例

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70065

Elizabeth Berger, Zaynab Hinnawi, Samah Jabr

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Psychoanalysis for the People? Psychoanalytic Contexts and Practices in the Community 人民的精神分析？社区中的精神分析环境和实践

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70064

Sandra Roberto, Joana Alves Ferreira, Ana Raquel Santos

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To Disappear or to Become Relatable as Subjects in Mourning? 作为哀悼的主题，是消失还是变得相关？

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Pub Date : 2026-07-06 DOI: 10.1002/aps.70062

Shifa Haq

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