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This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety. It explores this theory as a generative paradigm, capable both of theoretical extension and of empirical application to different institutional settings.
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Index
abduction, 83
accident and emergency [A&E] department(s), 13, 136
acting out, 5, 180, 225
organizational, 161, 168
action research projects, 102
Adams, R., 121
adolescent breakdown, 318
adolescent delinquency, 316
adolescent development, effect of in school, 282
adolescent pupils, sexualized behaviour of, 19
adultery, 154
Adult Probation, 317
A&E: see accident and emergency
affect phobia, 228–229
agency nurse(s), 131
aggression:
and reparation, integration of, 29
repression of, 29
unconscious, 29
uncontrolled, downwards projection of phantasy of, 34
Ahmedabad experiment, 71
Alford, C. F., 75
algorithms, as social defences, 68
alienation, existential, 31
Allen, G., 292
“alpha” returns, 193
alternating “figure-ground” perspective, 93
Alvarez, A., 295
Amado, G., 77, 107
Anderson, D., 198
annihilation anxiety, 10, 74, 80
anomic anxieties, 266
anthropology, 94, 156
anticipatory anxiety, 189
anti-social personality disorder, 128
anti-social tendency, Winnicott’s concept of, 318
anxiety(ies):
analysis of, 45–46
annihilation, 10, 74, 80
anomic, 266
anticipatory, 189
arising from primary task, 51
collective, 102
concept of, 6–7
in Klein’s work, 8
later developments in, 9–12
containment of, 62, 197
in corporate cultures, 213–221
and defences, practical understandings of, 19–21
defences against, see defences against anxiety
social systems as, 77, 161, 168, 174, 223, 239, 254
depressive: see depressive anxiety
depressive to persecutory, 243–246
displacement of, onto trivial matters, 32
domain, 18
evoked by primary task, 174
existential...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
- Introduction: revisiting the paradigm
- I Theoretical
- II Health and nursing
- III The private sector
- IV Social welfare and education
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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