Il boss mafioso ieri ed oggi. Caratteristiche psicologiche e dati di ricerca

This article describes Cosa Nostra bosses’ psychological characteristics starting from re-search data collected in almost twenty years (1994-2013). Through the use of fragments of interviews to justice collaborators and their wives, children, sisters-in-law, we analyze the boss’s role and relational context. This article also reports the results of a recent research on the relationship between boss and white-collar workers, carried out through the analysis of environ-mental tapping recorded at a famous Sicilian Mafia boss’s house: Giuseppe Guttadauro. This research highlights the psychological diversity the relationship between boss and white-collar worker is based on. The analysis of environmental tapping transcriptions has also allowed finding out the main relational modalities used by boss and white-collar worker in their conversations.