Psychopathology and politicsLasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
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Psychopathology and politics
Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight)
Personality and politics; Political science; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Pathological
21. By whom were you adversely criticized during and after your
term in office for your record? How were you censured and for what?
Effect on you?
22. Were you re-elected or reappointed, promoted or demoted, after
serving your term or before? Why?
23. How did you get along with your immediate superiors,
collaborators, and assistants? To what extent did you manipulate
them? What different tactics did you employ with each? What success?
24. What were your formal and ceremonial duties in the organization
as an officer? Did you enjoy them?
25. How did you enjoy your other official activities?
26. As a non-official, or non-position-holding member of the
organization, what did you enjoy about it? The ceremonies? The
routine operations? The uncertain features?
27. As a member of the rank and file, what policies and activities
did you initiate, support, or oppose? Why? How much did you do and
to what effect? How did the elements of the organization line up?
Were you usually in the minority or the majority? What elements
were usually with you?
28. How did your reputation change during your years in the
organizations?
29. What particular friends and enemies did you acquire?
30. As a member of the rank and file, did you have personal
misunderstandings, quarrels, and hatreds between you and other
members? Why? What did you do? Results?
31. Did you arbitrate any grievances or try to smooth them out?
Success? Why?
32. What was your attitude toward other organizations or groups
with which your organization either competed or had some relations?
As a member of the rank and file, what did you do to change or
intensify prevailing attitudes? Influence?
33. Did your organization use physical or other means of
pressure against outside organizations and other members of your
organization? As a member of the rank and file, what did you do and
with what effect? Did you think your organization was the best of
its kind?
34. Have you severed your connection or become inactive? Why?
35. If you are still active, what are your plans and hopes?
36. How did this particular organization touch the administrative,
legislative, and judicial branches of the government? The political
parties? How? What methods were used to bring pressure to bear?
What was your part in them?
37. As you look back on your life in the organization do you think
of practices which you indulged in or tolerated which you regard
as perhaps questionable? Instances? Did you so regard them at the
time? What would have happened if you had not indulged in them?
Should an organization be run on a different basis now?
38. What effect did life in the organization have upon your
activity in the politics of the community at large? Did you have
impulses to express yourself publicly or privately upon matters
which you felt it expedient to follow? Or were you driven to such
expression and activity?
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