Fittingly it's the 100th anniversary of Freud's publishing of seminal monograph Group Psychology http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35877 http://www.gutenberg.org

Fittingly it's the 100th anniversary of Freud's publishing of seminal monograph Group Psychology http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35877 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35877 Which in turn gave us Bion's Group Dynamics http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://tpocambodia.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bion-Group-Dynamics-A-Review.pdf http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://tpocambodi... Which was the basis for Shirky's A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit... And of course we can trace many of these observations and questions of group dynamics such as membership and leadership qualifications, rules making and enforcement, moderation, identity, cohesion, conflict resolution, growth and decay, prestige and influence, etc back further, to Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Avicenna, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Le Bon ... So it has ever been. Group dynamics are hard, film at eleven :)