ABSTRACT
Utilizing a group psychoanalytic perspective, the author examines group dynamics surrounding and generated from the Trump–Clinton election and the aftermath with particular attention to the emotional interactional relationship between the leader and the nation. Group dynamics are explored from a psychological, social, political, and historic context.
Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank Ira Hirschman, Ph.D. and John Caffaro, Ph.D. for their supportive comments during the writing of this article.
A version of this paper was presented to the Group Analytic Society International Symposium, 2017, Berlin, Germany.
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Ronnie Levine
Ronnie Levine is faculty in the Center for Group Studies, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, Group Therapy Training Program, and in private practice in New York, NY.