Psychoanalytic studies of organizations contributions from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) (Karnac Books, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1985 NEW YORK The social character of bureaucracy: Anxiety and ritualistic defense; 1986 NEW YORK The splitting of leadership and management as a social defense; 1987 NEW YORK To explore the unconscious dynamics of transition as it affects the interdependence of individual, group and organizational aims in paradigm change; 1988 NEW YORK Psychoanalytic frameworks for organizational analysis and consultation: An overview and appraisal of theory and practice
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 Studies 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 pr