Robert Kramer

Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest · Psychology

Freud broke relations with Rank because Rank made mother not father the origin of the superego. Object relations, asserts Rank, begin at birth, not in the Oedipal phase. Freud, who idealized the mother-son relationship, was furious at Rank for touching upon Freud's own unanalyzed relationship to his mother, Amalia.

Superbly edited by Gervase Bushe and Robert Marshak, the chapters in this book, which introduce Dialogic OD into the language of management, are so brilliantly crafted they could have been written by Kurt Lewin himself. By combining old words in new ways, Lewin, the creator of OD, invented the vocabulary of action research, group dynamics and, what...

I argue in this paper that a new paradigm for how leaders should be trained and developed is needed. In the new paradigm, leader development will focus on transforming mindsets more than skillsets. Skills are necessary but not sufficient for leadership. Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and cognitive science, and the theory of " unl...

In their new book, entitled "Training for Leadership" (Editions juridiques Bruylant, 2013), Geert Bouckaert and Michel de Vries write that, in today's world of permanent crisis, leading in the public sector "is about handling uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity beyond imagination, and significant disagreement about what is going on, why and what sho...

Propelled from the inner circle after publishing The Trauma of Birth (1924), Otto Rank jettisoned Freud's science of knowing because it denied the intelligence of the emotions. Transforming therapy from knowing to being-in-relationship, Rank invented modern object-relations theory, which advocates continual learning, unlearning and relearning: that...

Sigmund Freud's relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud's publishing house; and after several years helping Freud...

Action learning is a powerful tool for self-awareness and group-awareness that accomplishes four objectives simultaneously: (1) it helps organizations solve urgent problems, (2) it helps build groups that learn, (3) it helps enhance the leadership skills of group members, and (4) it helps develop the emotional intelligence of individuals and groups...

Written from 1964 until 1969, the year in which Ernest Becker rediscovered the writings of Otto Rank, these journals offer a poignant answer to Becker's call to all of us, and most of all to himself, in his Pulitzer Prize—winning The Denial of Death (1973)— becoming “conscious of what one is doing to earn [one's] feeling of heroism is the main self...

From 2002 until 2005, Robert Kramer served as director of the executive leadership Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at American University (AU) in Washington, DC. An executive cohort at AU consisted of about 20 participants, most of whom were senior officials in the US government or military. On taking over as director, Kramer’s first...

2 "We're always talking about efficiency, productivity, restructuring and accountability. And to the ordinary citizen this means little. What the citizens want to hear is honesty, service … You have to communicate with people at an emotion level --the issues that are confronting them as ordinary citizens" (Delegate to OECD Symposium, cited in Lau,...

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Rank was co-creator with Freud of the psychoanalytic movement. Freud trusted him to co-write "The Interpretation of Dreams," and Rank's name was under Freud's on the title page from 1914 to 1929. Freud never tired of repeating that the cause of all human phenomena--the cause of all feeling, loving. thinking, and willing--was a derivative, however d...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Washington University, 1997. Includes bibliographical references.

Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop client-centered therapy. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. "I became infected with Ranki...

Tables and Figures. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. The Author. THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION. Collaboration: The Constructive Management of Differences. The Impetus to Collaborate. THE DYNAMICS OF COLLABORATION. The Collaborative Process. Turning Conflict into Collaboration: A Case Study. Understanding the Political Dynamics of Collaboration. Co...

Robert Denhardt has made a unique contribution to organization theory. Drawing on depth psychology, In the Shadow of Organization (1981) lays bare the hidden religious underpinnings of organization as cultural symbol of the denial of death. In exchange for the magical, protective embrace of the organization, however, we unconsciously submit to domi...