The Creativity Of Social Dreaming

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429920424

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The Creativity of Social Dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social dreaming.The book begins with a summary of the Social Dreaming Matrix conceptualised as a temporary system with its intakes, transformation processes and outputs. The remaining chapters cover social dreaming in different contexts including, amongst others, from the perspectives of art, architecture, theatre, working with immigrants, with pilots and lawyers and family mediators and hospitals.All the papers cover areas outside of the goal orientated activities of the institution, and examine what they may be saying about the organization of the participants.

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 042948142X

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The Creativity of Social Dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

"This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social dreaming.The book begins with a summary of the Social Dreaming Matrix conceptualised as a temporary system with its intakes, transformation processes and outputs. The remaining chapters cover social dreaming in different contexts including, amongst others, from the perspectives of art, architecture, theatre, working with immigrants, with pilots and lawyers and family mediators and hospitals.All the papers cover areas outside of the goal orientated activities of the institution, and examine what they may be saying about the organization of the participants."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Julian Manley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319925554

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Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect by Julian Manley Pdf

This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called ‘social dreaming’. It explores how the sharing of real, night time dreams, in a group, can offer information on and insight into ourselves and the worlds we live in and share. It investigates how we can turn dream images, and ideas and feelings that arise from these images, into conscious thought, before describing the ways in which these can be used. Using a background of the psychosocial combined with a philosophical lens influenced by the work of Gilles Deleuze, Julian Manley shows how social dreaming can be understood as a Deleuzian ‘rhizome of affects’, a web or a root design where things interconnect in a random and spontaneous fashion rather than in a sequential or linear way. He illustrates how social dreaming can link dreams together into a collage of images, and compares this to the rhizome, where clusters of emotional intensity – which emerge from the dream images – weave and interconnect with other clusters, forming a web of interlinked dream images and emotions. From the basis of this rhizome emerges an interpretation of social dreaming as a ‘body without organs’ and the social dreaming matrix as a ‘smooth space’ where meanings emerge from the way these images form connections, and come and go according to our emotions at any particular moment.

Author : Susan Long,Julian Manley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429830181

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Social Dreaming by Susan Long,Julian Manley Pdf

The idea of social dreaming argues that dreams are relevant to the wider social sphere and have a collective resonance that goes beyond the personal narrative. In this fascinating collection, the principles of social dreaming are explored to uncover shared anxieties and prejudices, suggest likely responses, enhance cultural surveys, inform managerial policies and embody community affiliation. Including, for the first time, a coherent epistemology to support the theoretical principles of the field, the book reflects upon and extends the theory and philosophy behind the method, as well as discussing new research in the area, and how social dreaming practice is conducted in a range of localities, situations and circumstances. The book will appeal to anyone interested in the idea that social dreaming can help us to delve deeper into the question of what it means to be human, from psychoanalysts to sociologists and beyond.

Author : Elisabetta Pasini,Cinzia Trimboli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031424984

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A Social Dreaming Experience at the Time of COVID 19 by Elisabetta Pasini,Cinzia Trimboli Pdf

The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency. The pandemic isolated us and imposed prolonged contact with ourselves and our solitary thoughts. Against this backdrop, there was hope for change, a desire for a different kind of sociability and different forms of intimacy. On the basis of this evidence, our research supports the shift "from experiencing trauma to reacting to trauma", looking at a collective traumatic experience not only as something to be overcome but as an opportunity for a transformation that changes our mental schemes in relation to the external context. We have identified Social Dreaming as a privileged technique to overcome a collective traumatic experience, supporting its elaboration through collective feelings, new connections between intuition and rational thought, the discovery of community meanings. The authors's thesis is that the much-needed transition from 'magical thinking' to 'transformative thinking' takes place in a setting that is able to contain the anxieties of life's transitional phases, supporting the creation of new rituals and new social bonds and sustaining the passage from “me” to a “wider we”.

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429900945

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Introduction to Social Dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

This book explains social dreaming by situating it in the context of thinking, culture, and knowledge and distinguishes how it differs from conventional, therapeutic dreaming, making the case for how it can be used in systems, like business organizations, educational institutions, and hospitals.

Author : Stephen Frosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031303661

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The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies by Stephen Frosh Pdf

Author : John Clare,Ali Zarbafi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429919329

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Social Dreaming in the 21st Century by John Clare,Ali Zarbafi Pdf

We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking. After the loss and carnage of the Twentieth Century there is prevailing mood of uncertainty and paranoia, yet at the same time a denial of tragedy, a salvation fantasy, an illusion that we will be saved. The decline in social solidarity, the fragmentation of communal values and a growing sense of 'I' as opposed to 'we', are all signs of an inversion of moral certitudes, a disconnection from reality. This book asks what methods do we have at our disposal to understand and reverse this breakdown of communication within and between communities.

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914904

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Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

Examining recalled dreams with many others in a Social Dreaming Matrix leads to the transformation of the thinking embedded in the dreams. There are infinite meanings to a dream by regarding the dream as an unconscious product of cultural knowledge, not as an expression of the psyche exclusively, opening new possibilities of thinking.

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429919312

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Social Dreaming @ Work by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins date back to the early 1980s. At that time, Gordon Lawrence was on the scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He was a core member of the Institute's Group Relations Programme, within which he had developed a distinctive approach centring around the concept of "relatedness" — that is, the ways in which individual experience and behaviour reflects and is structured by conscious and unconscious constructs of the group or organization in the mind...

Author : Susan Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429919350

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Socioanalytic Methods by Susan Long Pdf

Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these dynamics are interconnected. This book examines several of the methodologies used in socioanalytic work. Even though the beginnings of socioanalytic investigation lay in the mid-twentieth century, a broad look across several methodologies has not been done before, despite separate publications dealing with particular methods. In addition, several new methods have been developed in recent years, which the present work incorporates. Connecting all these methods is their aim of 'tapping into' the dynamic operation of what the author calls 'the associative unconscious' within and between social systems. The associative unconscious is the unconscious at a systemic level. Each of the methods discussed in this book accesses the associative unconscious in different ways.

Author : Judith Anderson,Tree Staunton,Jenny O’Gorman,Caroline Hickman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040002520

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Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown by Judith Anderson,Tree Staunton,Jenny O’Gorman,Caroline Hickman Pdf

This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice. Arguing that it is vital for ecological concerns to enter the therapy room, this book calls for change from regulatory bodies, training institutes and individual practitioners. The book includes original thinking and research by practitioners from a range of perspectives, including psychodynamic, eco-systemic and integrative. It considers how our different modalities and ways of working need to be adapted to be applicable to the ecological crises. It includes Voices from people who are not practitioners about their experience including how they see the role of therapy. Chapters deal with topics from climate science, including the emotional and mental health impacts of climate breakdown, professional ethics and wider systemic understandings of current therapeutic approaches. Also discussed are the practice-based implications of becoming a climate-aware therapist, eco-psychosocial approaches and the inextricable links between the climate crises and racism, colonialism and social injustice. Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown will enable therapists and mental health professionals across a range of modalities to engage with their own thoughts and feelings about climate breakdown and consider how it both changes and reinforces aspects of their therapeutic work.

Author : W. Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913396

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Experiences in Social Dreaming by W. Gordon Lawrence Pdf

Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. In the first chapter, he outlines some ideas on this phenomenon. Here follows a wide-ranging collection of essays on the experiences of various practitioners, either personal or what they have found when taking this phenomenon into the wider social arena, such as the church, schools, consultancy and working with children.

Author : Earl Hopper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429922237

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The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies by Earl Hopper Pdf

The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups, and essential for comprehensive clinical work. This series of volumes of contributions from an international network of psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, group analysts and psychodramatists draw on the classical ideas of Freud, Klein and Jung, Bion, Foulkes and Moreno, and on contemporary relational perspectives, self-psychology and neuroscience. Volume 1 is concerned mainly with the theory of the social unconscious. It is focused on topics such as location, sociality, the social brain, identity, ideology, the foundation matrix, social psychological retreats, false collective self-objects, the collective unconscious and its archetypes and social dreaming.

Author : John Adlam,Tilman Kluttig,Bandy Lee
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781784509675

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Violent States and Creative States (Volume 1) by John Adlam,Tilman Kluttig,Bandy Lee Pdf

This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states' of mind behind specific forms of violence and the social and societal contexts in which an individual act of human violence takes place, the contributors reveal the dynamic forces and reasoning behind specific forms of violence including structural violence, and conceptualise the societal structures themselves as 'violent states'. Other research often stops short at examining the causes and risk factors for violence, without considering the opposite states that may not only mitigate, but allow for a different unfolding of individual and societal evolution. As a potential antidote to violence, the authors prescribe an understanding of these 'creative states' with their psychological origins, and their importance in human behaviour and meaning-seeking. Making a call to move beyond merely mitigating violence to the opposite direction of fostering creative potential, this book is foundational in its capacity to cultivate social consciousness and effect positive change in areas of governance, policy-making, and collective responsibility. Volume 1: Structural Violence and Creative Structures covers structural and symbolic violence, with violent states and State violence, and with creative responses and creative states at the local and global levels.