The Psychoanalysis Of Organizations

Author : Robert De Board
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317618836

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One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory describes those primary processes that lie at the heart of human activity and provides new insights for understanding group and organizational behaviour. With a new introduction written by Vega Roberts, this Classic Edition of The Psychoanalysis of Organizations presents the theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Elizabeth Lewin and Eric Menzies in plain language and shows their relevance to normal working life. First published in 1978, Robert De Board takes a wide-ranging overview of the major psychoanalytic theorists and organizational researchers, and analyses how the two groups can work together. Written in a very accessible style, it makes sophisticated psychoanalytic and management concepts comprehensible and usable for anyone.

Author : Robert De Board
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134941742

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The Psychoanalysis of Organizations by Robert De Board Pdf

In print for over twenty years, this classic work takes a wide-ranging overview of the major psychoanalytic theorists and organizational researchers and ends with the writer's own idea about how the two groups work together. Written in plain English, it nevertheless gets across some sophisticated concepts. A valuable read for managers, behavioural scientists, psychoanalysts and counsellors, and interesting for the general reader too.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446264386

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Organizations in Depth by Yiannis Gabriel Pdf

`The book is a good read. Gabriel has an engaging writing style, liberally interspersed with vignettes, cases, and quotes.... While the reader may not agree with some of what Gabriel is espousing, the author presents his material in a non-judgemental manner.... And who knows ? Maybe Gabriel is foreshadowing some new directions in organizational theory and even new research methodology′ - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Richly illustrated with examples, Yiannis Gabriel′s exhaustive study provides fresh understandings of the role of creativity, control mechanisms, leadership, culture, and emotions in organizations. Core theories are explained at length and there is a chapter on research strategies. Extensive reference is made to practical cases, and there is a review of the key debates.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761952616

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Organizations in Depth by Yiannis Gabriel Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Richly illustrated with examples, Yiannis Gabriel's exhaustive study provides fresh understandings of the role of creativity, control mechanisms, leadership, culture, and emotions in organizations. Core theories are explained at length and there is a chapter on research strategies. Extensive reference is made to practical cases, and there is a review of the key debates.

Author : Kenneth Eisold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315390079

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The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis by Kenneth Eisold Pdf

The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth Eisold provides a unique, detailed, and closely reasoned account of the systems needed to carry out the tasks of training, quality control, community building, and relationships with the larger professional community. He explores how the freedom to innovate and explore can be sustained in a context where the culture has insisted on certain standards being set and enforced, standards that have little to do with providing effective pathways to cure. Each chapter in this collection addresses a specific dilemma faced by the profession, including: Who is to be in charge of training and who will determine those who succeed the existing leadership? Which theories and practices are to be approved and which proscribed and censored? How is the competition with alternative methods, including psychotherapy informed by psychoanalysis, to be managed? Several chapters are devoted to exploring the reciprocal influence of Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian Analytical Psychology. Others explore the specific dilemmas and difficulties affecting the field currently, stemming from the massive restructuring of the health care industry and the changes affecting all professions, as they are reshaped into massive organizations no longer marked by personal relationships and individual control. The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and anyone interested in the future of psychoanalysis as a profession. It will appeal greatly to anyone who has assumed full or partial responsibility for the management of a psychoanalytic institute or association.

Author : Burkard Sievers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429918070

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Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations by Burkard Sievers Pdf

This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last twenty-five years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). What characterises this collection of original papers is an attempt to look at organizations, groups, teams and organizational role holders using psychoanalytic, systemic and psychodynamic perspectives that collectively eschew superficial, linear, prescriptive and mechanistic views of both the system and the individual within. These papers, delivered as presentations to the Society during the Annual Symposia of the ISPSO from its inception in 1983 to date, collectively form an important commentary on the changing societal dynamics and current preoccupations facing contemporary organizations, their leaders and their workforce. As such, these papers are representative of many that have contributed to, and documented, the development of the thought and praxis from a psychoanalytic perspective and systems thinking over the last quarter of century. Whilst most of these papers have already been published elsewhere, the ISPSO as an organization wished to include them in this volume, recognising their lasting influence and legacy as well as their ongoing impact upon the thinking and the practice of its membership and beyond.

Author : David Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429917073

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Organization in the Mind by David Armstrong Pdf

David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the first time, his key writings in this area. This is essential reading for managers and leaders, as well as organizational consultants, academics and students of organizations. Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.

Author : Robert de Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163273149

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Author : Laurence J. Gould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429922381

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The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations by Laurence J. Gould Pdf

This authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspective defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that derive from it, together with their theoretical and conceptual underpinnings in psychoanalysis, group relations and open systems theory.

Author : R. D. Hinshelwood,Marco Chiesa
Publisher : Whurr Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015053775345

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Organisations, Anxieties and Defences by R. D. Hinshelwood,Marco Chiesa Pdf

Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups, organizations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been many different approaches. This volume brings together the contributions to a field which could be called psychoanalytic social psychology, from a very wide-ranging group of contributors. The substantial introductory chapters by the editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on social groups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eight chapters from eminent authors on the topic, writing in Europe, the Americas and Britain.

Author : Larry Hirschhorn,Carole K. Barnett
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566390206

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The Psychodynamics of Organizations by Larry Hirschhorn,Carole K. Barnett Pdf

Author note: Larry Hirschhorn is Principal of the Center for Applied Research, Inc., a faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute's Program on Organizational Development and Consultation, and the author of several books, including The Workplace Within. Carole K. Barnett is a Ph.D. candidate in the Organizational Psychology Program at the University of Michigan and co-editor of Globalizing Management: Creating and Leading the Competitive Organization.

Author : Brent Willock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136871504

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Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis by Brent Willock Pdf

Finalist for the 2007 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship! This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges. Moving beyond the usual borders of psychoanalysis, Willock usefully draws on insights from neighboring disciplines to shed additional light on the core issue. Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis is divided into two sections for organizational clarity. Part I is an intriguing investigation into the nature of thought and its intrinsic problems. It convincingly builds a case for the need, after a century of disciplinary development, to move beyond delineated schools, and proposes a method for achieving this goal. The succeeding section elaborates this desideratum in detail, exploring its implications with respect to theory, organizations, practice, and pedagogy. This second portion of the volume is most applicable to everyday concerns with improving work in the field, be it in the consulting room, classroom, or in and between various psychoanalytic organizations.

Author : Earl Hopper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429909054

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Trauma and Organizations by Earl Hopper Pdf

This book is concerned with the study of organizations of various kinds. It examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organizations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous and understanding the variations in individual, group, and organizations.

Author : Michael Hofmann,Monika List
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662128473

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Psychoanalysis and Management by Michael Hofmann,Monika List Pdf

Managers are confronted with many difficult demands which are still unknown to them. Gaining a better knowledge for unconscious ways of human behavior and their motivations is very important. This book introduces research work to European readers by selected contributions from leading psychoanalytically oriented management theorists and clinicians. The authors deal with different topics such as leadership, corporate culture, family business, organizational stress, career dynamics and so on. All of them try to win an understanding and insight into conscious, unconscious, rational and irrational behavior. The purpose of this book is fulfilled if this knowledge can be practiced in order to achieve improvements for the cooperation between people in general.

Author : John Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134858026

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Psychic Retreats by John Steiner Pdf

Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change. These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats', into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality. To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts, the author builds on more established ideas such as Klein's distinction between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and briefly reviews previous work on pathological organizations of the personality. He illustrates his discussion with detailed clinical material, with examples of the way psychic retreats operate to provide a respite from both paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxieties. He looks at the way such organizations function as a defence against unbearable guilt and describes the mechanism by which fragmentation of the personality can be reversed so the lost parts of the self can be regained and reintegrated in to the personality. Psychic Retreats is written with the practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.