Acknowledgments

While, of course, assuming full responsibility for all critique and proposals in this volume, I wish to acknowledge the influence of those teachers and colleagues who have inspired me with their thoughts and contributions, whose council and recommendations have influenced my thinking and writing, and to whom I acknowledge my profound gratitude.

My earliest experiences with functional leadership and the delicate balance of relations between leadership and followership, their influence on group morale, enthusiasm and productivity, came from my adolescent experiences as a member of a Jewish youth group in Valparaiso, Chile, guided by Hans Aufrichtig, a Zionist youth leader in Germany who gathered immigrant Jewish children in Valparaiso to form an organization modeled after the tradition of the romantic, early twentieth-century tradition of German youth groups. There, a spirit of shared relations to nature and art was fostered, and a corresponding ideology of democratic solidarity built up. In a completely different context, this awareness of the impact of leadership on organizational functioning was fostered by Dr Jorge Romano, the director of a Mental Health Unit working with slum populations in Santiago, Chile, of which I became a member as a medical student. Dr Romano managed an organizational structure that fostered, despite long hours and minimal pay, an ongoing spirit of enthusiasm for our joint work over a number of years.

Dr Ignacio Matte Blanco, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical School of the University of Chile, the founder of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association, and the developer of a path-breaking psychodynamic psychiatry department, both determined my choice of career within medicine,

and provided an exemplar of brilliant, functional, non-authoritarian leadership that obtained its strength from the communication of the professional ideals that inspired him. The breadth of his intellectual realm, his profound knowledge