Howard Schwartz, Ph.D., studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Antioch College and in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and UCSD. His PhD is in organizational behavior from Cornell University. Schwartz has been interested in the psychodynamics of organizations and has published numerous papers in that area, as well as the book Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organization Ideal. His second book, The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness was published by Praeger in May 2001. Schwartz was one of the founders of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). He joined the faculty at Oakland University in 1977.