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The Leader and the Scapegoat: A Dependency Group Study

Piers Lyndon

Group Analytic Society (London)

Whether by constitution and temperament, by personal inclination or by group selection, the scapegoat is ultimately a non-conformist. If this non-conformist potential is not too insistently and self-destructively expressed, it may be employed by the group to lever itself from a simple dual opposition between leader and led to a more differentiated and evenly-distributed exchange between the group members themselves. The change is one from compliance and suggestibility to self-initiative and social responsibility. The scapegoat may be used to facilitate this transition.

Group Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 1, 95-104 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316494271009
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