Inside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Head

GlobalPost:

There's been a lot of talk about the key players in the Iranian election saga, but little mention of their psychological motivations. So we decided to play Freud. Helping us with this head game is Marvin Zonis, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Zonis is a political risk expert who was a widely cited commentator during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He was educated at Yale University, the Harvard Business School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in political science, and the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, where he received psychoanalytic training.

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Comments

[mergina]

08:31 AM on 06/19/2009

Dollar signs. Visions of dancing versions, who btw, will still be considered less than equal to men.

[wereeverywhere]

03:09 PM on 06/17/2009

Inside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's head? What a strange headline. Instead of the project being tackled by psychologists, perhaps a more literal approach by revolutionary justice in Iran would be in order.