Lasswell's efforts in the 1930s to use the findings of psychoanalytic case studies for understanding personality patterns in political leadership have been followed only by slow progress. Some obstacles to such application are identified. Case material from the psychoanalytic treatment of a small number of patients whose fathers were absent in wartime is used to exemplify certain promising strategies for overcoming such obstacles. The discussion suggests the need for the psychopolitical investigator to examine closely the details of various intrapsychic responses to early family experience. For this, the study of clinical literature is the best resource.
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