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Examining why society becomes so enraptured with certain figures, an author surveys a wide variety of leaders both past and present attempting to explain how to distinguish between false authorities and those who are real. 35,000 first printing.
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Every generation has its charismatic spiritual leaders, its gurus. Some are true saints while others conceal unspeakable depravity. Anthony Storr, Oxford professor of psychiatry, analyzes an interesting array of gurus and finds many commonalities among them--an isolated childhood, a need for certainty, a demand for obedience. He also elucidates aspects of this psychological profile in various intellectual, artistic, and political figures of history. This eye-opening book invokes a larger issue: in our search for guidance and truth, when and why do we cross the line from reasoned inquirer to unquestioning follower?
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Anthony Storr is a Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, an Emeritus Fellow at Green College at Oxford, and a former Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Oxford University.
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- PublisherFree Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0684828189
- ISBN 13 9780684828183
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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