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The walls within: working with defenses against otherness

Online Conference 5-11 July 2021

ISPSO ANNUAL MEETING 2027

February 2–7, 2027
Vienna, Austria

SYMPOSIUM PAPERS

Selected papers to be presented at the Symposium, Vienna 5-7 February 2027
Scheduling of the Parallel Paper sessions and paper details will be posted shortly


Utopism at the core of the tension between incompleteness and omnipotence: the unprobable victory of the French tennis team in the 1991 Davis Cup final
Gilles Amado  

AI: Attachment, Projection and Other Lenses
Jonathan Ames  

What the Image Knows: Art, the social unconscious and the emergence of thought
Regan Berry

Lifting the strategy ceiling: no master alone in its own house
Philip Boxer and Moritz Senarclens de Grancy

Curiosity, Omniscience and Bion's K at the Threshold of Inquiry
Nicola Brazil

Mandatory Leniency: Contradictions in Omnipotence and Authority
Tapo Chimbganda  

Who knows, really?  Working with AI
Nuala Dent

Incompleteness and the Unconscious Dynamics of Collaboration in the Green Transition
Manon de Jongh

                      From Basic Assumptions to Reversals: Re-thinking Group Work Through Reversal and Systems Psychodynamic Theory
Manon de Jongh, Larry Hirschhorn and Anna Reiche

A view from the trenches - surviving while surrendering omnipotence within the Irish Public Health System
Grainne Flynn, Belinda Moller and Chris Scanlon

 Difference Without Disturbance: Visibility, Dependency and Belonging in a Temporary Organisation
Manshreya Grover and Hala Malak 

The Hidden Heritage of Teams: How genogram work can contribute to team effectiveness
Michael Hauger

Political Climates and States of Mind: The Psychodynamics of Organizational Politics
Larry Hirschhorn 

The Coffee Machine Is Not Just a Coffee Machine: Sharing, Control and Incompleteness in Organizational Life
Lea Holm-Jensen, Nathalie Richebé and Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen 

Not Master in Its Own House: Organizations, Global Warming, and the Limits of Mastery
Martin Jensen

Countervailing Power at the Cusp of the Pyrocene
Ajeet Mathur

Systemic betrayal: Emotional defences and containment in rape investigations
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen

 Containing the Unthinkable: When the Political Crosses the Boundaries of Mind, Relationship, and Organization
Carleen Miller

Creating the setting for psychoanalytic exploration of what is missing
Richard Morgan-Jones 

Organisations Don’t Need Systems Psychodynamics… but maybe they should:
a psychoanalytically informed case for the moral and existential imperatives.
Brigid Nossal

Is the researcher Master in their own house?
Benjamin Pascal

The Smell Test: recovering a 19th Century Freudian theory to combat a 21st Century omnipotence epidemic
Steven Reisner 

Towards a cruelty-informed Reflective-Practice and Team Development (RPTD) consultancy: working with the traumatised-organisation-in the-mind?
Christopher Scanlon

The House Turned Inside-Out: Sovereign AI and the Boundary That Will Not Hold
Biljana Stefanovic

The Co-Dependency Work Group: Navigating Omnipotence and Incompleteness in Contemporary Teams
Nadine R. Tchelebi

Doing Human Better: From Omnipotence to Relatedness
Rica Viljoen

Farewell to the Master: Communicating the Mysteries of Psychoanalysis from 1917 to 2027
Nick Waggett 

Siblings in the Father's House: Rivalry, Fairness and the Impossible Inheritance in Business Families
Robert Waldl 

To manufacture a vehicle we manufacture a crisis
Simon Western

What the Master of the house cannot afford to know
Barbara Wren