Psychoanalyst · Advisor · Author

Power degrades the very capacity it most requires.

The higher the authority, the more filtered the information; the greater the stakes, the more the environment organizes itself to protect the leader from precisely the truths they need most.

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Alison Feit, PhD

Harvard · Yale · William Alanson White Institute, New York

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Where This Work Happens

Advisory & Consulting

For senior leaders, institutions, and their trusted advisors.

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An intensive mentorship for professionals who need to read people.

Writing & Speaking

Published work and public speaking on power and psychology.

Background

Training & Philosophy

I trained at Harvard under Drew Westen and Yale under Mahzarin Banaji. I studied at the William Alanson White Institute and was mentored by Miltiades Zaphiropoulos, who taught me the discipline of psychoanalysis as a way of seeing human behavior.

I am a practicing psychoanalyst. Psychoanalysis is how I see. It is what I teach. And it is, I believe, the most powerful and most underutilized framework for understanding human beings that the modern world has produced.

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Writing & Speaking

On the psychology of power, and the hidden architecture of how people are built.

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The thing you can't see is always the thing that's running the show.

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulos, M.D.