The Curiosity Drive
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The Curiosity Drive

Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Curiosity Drive

Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking

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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. About the author
  8. Foreword by Peter Hobson
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter One - The role of curiosity in the early development of the mind
  11. Chapter Two - Love, hate, and curiosity
  12. Chapter Three - Further development
  13. Chapter Four - The myth of the healthy organisation
  14. Chapter Five - Ethics
  15. Chapter Six - Applications—therapeutic
  16. Chapter Seven - Applications—organisational
  17. Chapter Eight - Psychoanalytic organisations—what’s different?
  18. Chapter Nine - Politics
  19. Chapter Ten - Love in Shakespeare
  20. Chapter Eleven - The problem with curiosity
  21. References
  22. Index