This article by
Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries analyzes a problem that can be described as the
retirement syndrome. In exploring the difficulties many leaders face in letting
go at the end of a full career, it reviews a number of the barriers to exit:
financial, social, and psychological. It looks at the physical and
psychological effects of aging, in the context of retirement; examines the
experience of nothingness that single-minded careerists often feel after
retirement; describes the talion principle, a subliminal fear of reprisals; and
discusses the "edifice complex", the wish to leave behind a legacy.
The article concludes with suggestions as to how individuals and organizations
can develop more effective and humane disengagement strategies.
About Author
Manfred F. R. Kets
de Vries brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership
and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and
experience of economics (Econ. Drs., University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, M.B.A., and
D.B.A., Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic
Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), he scrutinizes the interface between
international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry.
The Retirement Syndrom: The Psychology of Letting it Goand the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and
experience of economics (Econ. Drs., University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, M.B.A., and
D.B.A., Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic
Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), he scrutinizes the interface between
international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry.
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