
- 292 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Nominated for the Gradiva Award 2021
After eighteen frustrating months heading a specialist adolescent unit, Philip Stokoe applied for a training in consultation at the Tavistock Clinic based on the 'Tavi' aka 'group relations' model. This experience changed his life and, ultimately, led to this book, The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking. Embedding the training into his working life, Stokoe came to recognise the crucial importance of curiosity to the development of the mind. Alongside love and hate, it is a primary drive inside each of us. Without the desire to 'know', human evolution would take a very different path.
Philip Stokoe outlines the work of Freud, Klein, and Bion to provide a firm foundation to his exploration of individual development and how it relates to groups and organisations. He lays bare why so many organisations are dysfunctional, takes an in- depth look at the problems unique to psychoanalytic institutions, and gives clear insight into how groups function as a separate entity to the individuals involved. He also investigates curiosity's shadow side, detailing the 'alternative' processes needed when it becomes a problem.
This is a truly excellent book for trainees, professionals, and anyone who has ever been frustrated by work!
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the author
- Foreword by Peter Hobson
- Introduction
- Chapter One - The role of curiosity in the early development of the mind
- Chapter Two - Love, hate, and curiosity
- Chapter Three - Further development
- Chapter Four - The myth of the healthy organisation
- Chapter Five - Ethics
- Chapter Six - Applications—therapeutic
- Chapter Seven - Applications—organisational
- Chapter Eight - Psychoanalytic organisations—what’s different?
- Chapter Nine - Politics
- Chapter Ten - Love in Shakespeare
- Chapter Eleven - The problem with curiosity
- References
- Index