Evil, toxic and pathological categories of leadership: implications for political power

摘要: The study of the psychology individual leaders is rightly placed at centre many disciplines such as government and history. There are theories leadership, majority these concerned with rational policy, strategy decision. However there also a need to be collective emotions identification, fear, hysteria, other manifestations unconscious that used by raw materials produce an outcome may catastrophic in outcome. When this has occurred, it valid blame particularly where leader despot. However, philosophical problem when leadership question result evil intention or mental disorder, psychopathology persistent personality disorder characterized antisocial behaviour. This dichotomy been described mad/bad problem: offender mad therefore treatment, bad punishment? Many writers Staub have identified category defined terms destruction human beings, even original not cause evil. Another approach identify toxic, producing extreme levels dysfunctional organizational contamination. Yet another pathological leads consequences most people moments reasonableness would regard disastrous. definition which disastrous given special attention discussion, advantage leaving separate evaluation motives condition leader, who, on achieving political power, catastrophically toxic consequences.