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It is in its applications outside of the treatment situation that psychoanalysis may hold its most important promise. Psychoanalysis is a discipline which is devoted fundamentally to the understanding of the inner drives and conflicts which determine human behavior, and the mechanisms whereby man controls, directs, transforms, and adapts these internal forces in the conduct of his various relationships. When we consider these relationships, however, we are not concerned simply with an individual's current or past interactions with important persons in his life. We also include the study of this various relationships within groups and in the formation of societies. In the case of individuals such as writers, artists, and political leaders who, in the professional aspect of their lives, are to a certain extent "public property," our interest turns to the influence they exert through their creative works or public actions.
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Among the fields of applied psychoanalysis, the study of the lives and personalities of "great men" thus commands special interest. This is the field