Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations

Contributions from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO)

Burkard Sievers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367326401
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429918070
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Psychology

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.

Index

acquisition 23, 35, 112, 115, 131, 229, 232, 258, 268

action research 52, 75, 105–110, 117, 120, 121, 272, 274

Amado, G. ix, xvii, 263, 268, 270, 271, 279

ambivalence 6, 18, 153, 160, 162, 163, 165, 171–173, 269

annihilation 132, 133, 141, 144, 222, 229

anxiety xvii, 1–4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15–20, 26–28, 35, 36, 42–44, 46, 58, 59, 61, 73, 78, 88, 89, 91, 93, 98, 100, 102, 106, 108, 110, 114, 120, 127, 132, 137, 144, 148, 154, 155, 157–159, 169, 171, 178, 180, 182–186, 189, 190, 192, 199, 209, 223, 229, 230, 263, 265

archetype 144

Armstrong, D. ix, xvii, 108, 109, 175, 210

attachment 9, 11, 90, 101

authority 26, 39, 55, 71, 73, 76, 101, 109, 137, 154, 188, 190, 219, 250, 275

avenging 231

Bar-On, D. 278

basic assumption 28, 31, 36, 37, 44, 74, 183, 184, 191, 192, 209

binocular vision 227

boundaries 1, 2, 6, 8–10, 15, 18, 19, 55, 57, 59, 69, 128, 133, 144, 145, 154, 175, 188, 242, 245, 279,

Bridger, H. ix, xvii, 51, 192, 263, 270, 278–280

Brunning, H. xvii, 263, 268

Bureaucracy 1, 2, 4, 5,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• 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
• 1990 MONTREAL Institutional consultancy as a means of bringing about change in individuals
• 1995 LONDON Social dreaming as a tool of consultancy and action research
• 1996 NEW YORK Death imagery and the experience of organizational downsizing or, is your name on Schindler’s list?
• 1997 PHILADELPHIA The primary risk
• 1998 JERUSALEM ‘Psychic retreats’: The organisational relevance of a psychoanalytic formulation
• 2001 PARIS ‘Negative capability’: A contribution to the understanding of creative leadership
• 2002 MELBOURNE Against all reason: Trusting in trust
• 2005 BALTIMORE Sad, mad or bad: What approaches should we take to organisational states-of-mind?
• 2007 STOCKHOLM ‘Potential space’: The threatened source of individual and collective creativity
• LIST OF ORIGINAL REFERENCES
• INDEX