that the intellectual fashion in explanations of human nature that has dominated the Englishspeakingworld for the past 20 years is changing. It has become commonplace to claim that the giants who shaped much 20th-century thought (Marx and Freud) are dead, replaced by the evolutionist Darwin. But there are intriguing signs that Freud, at least, was merely sleeping, awaiting a new summons from th...

This article engages with human groupings when they are operating at their very worst. These enacting a particularly insidious, enduring and specific set of ‘othering’ dynamics that occur within between in-groups out-groups. is known as lynching these vicious destructive ‘lynch mobs’. I attempt to bring psychodynamic lens explore the complex issues constitute particular group enacted by mobs’ u...

The growing importance of sustainability in corporate policies represents a great opportunity for workers to gain more consideration, with great benefits to their well being. Sustainable work is believed to be one which improves the organization’s performance and fosters professional development as well as workers’ health. In a multiple case study based on document research, information was sou...

General stochastic dynamics, developed in a framework of Feynman path integrals, have been applied to Lewinian field–theoretic psychodynamics [1,2,13], resulting in the development of a new concept of life–space foam (LSF) as a natural medium for motivational and cognitive psychodynamics. According to LSF formalisms, the classic Lewinian life space can be macroscopically represented as a smooth...

Ambivalence is defined as the coexistence of opposed emotional attitudes toward a significant figure in the social environment. A new technique for the assessment of ambivalence is described; its application in a series of studies on college students, hospitalized schizophrenics, and school children reviewed. The obtained relationships of ambivalence to sociocultural characteristics, perceived ...