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Practical Uses of Six Socioanalytic Methods in Consultation, Research and Coaching - Presenter: Rose Mersky

Practical Uses of Six Socioanalytic Methods in Consultation, Research and Coaching ISPSO ONLINE FORUM #4 18th Septemb…

Civilization and its Discontents - with Richard Morgan Jones and Aaron Nurick

ISPSO Forum Series (May 2024)

Civilization and its Discontents ISPSO ONLINE FORUM #3
9th May 2024
Discussants Richard Morgan-Jones and Aa…

ISPSO Research Inventory

The ISPSO Research Inventory Project was announced in October 2009 as new activity for members.
A liaison is in…

Trilogy Matrix -introduction only. (ISPSO ERM 2023)

Richard Morgan-Jones

Richard Morgan-Jones Works psychoanalytically as an organizational and group relations consultant, psychotherapist an…

Flectar ne frangar: Resilience, trauma and the availability to entertain new thoughts (ISPSO ERM 2023)

Franca Fubini

Franca Fubini
Psychotherapist, organizational consultant, group analyst. Chair of Social dreaming international…

The rhetoric of change and the dark side of resilience (ISPSO ERM 2023)

Mario Perini

Mario Perini M.D. Co-founder of IL NODO Group, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and organizational consultant. Member of I…

Psychoanalytic reflections on the war in Ukraine

Halina Brunning, Sheila White, and Claudia Nagel

Halina Brunning, Sheila White, and Claudia Nagel Organisational & Social Dynamics 22(2) 226–244 (2022) This…

The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations - NEW BOOK RELEASE

HALINA BRUNNING & OLYA KHALEELEE (EDS.)

NEW BOOK RELEASE: An exploration of the new, unknown, and dangerous terrain that Covid-19 has opened before us from a…

Using Future Search To Address Wicked Systemic Problems

Jeffrey Axelbank, Psy.D.

Most of the problems plaguing the world, including many facing psychologists, can be classified as “wicked…

Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society

A collection of stories, based largely on the work of the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center, illustrating…

Kenneth Eisold interviewed by Thomas Hoffman

Dr Kenneth Eisold interviewed by Dr Thomas Hoffman
2017 "I think of my consulting work with clients as a serie…

Niches and Networks: Prospects for Strategic Analysis

Boxer, P. Wensley, R.

The network characteristic of markets has been widely recognized by a number of researchers particularly in the field…

The Psychodynamics of Coaching. Distinctive Features.

Claudia Nagel

Description: In Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features, Claudia Nagel presents a comprehensive overview of the…

Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy

Mersky, R. R.

The author describes a consulting intervention, only later seen, in light of the Transforming Experience Framework th…

The centre will hold - the role of Residential Childcare Leadership in Containing Emotions of Change - A journey from Despair to Potency

Brian Melaugh

This paper is available by request from the author.

What is This Thing Called Love ?

Annemette Hasselager & Birgitte Bonnerup

Paper Presentation

Hero to Partner in Emergency Management, Australia

Ms Kristina Karlsson

This paper will explore desire and defenses in the emergency management sector in the state of Victoria, Australia. T…

An Existential Analysis of Absurdity in Organisational Life - made visible through use of metaphor and the Lacanian Plus-one group

Jennifer Smith

Paper Presentation.

When Authority Meets Love: Ambivalence in Mentorship

Bonnie Oglensky

Paper Presentation

Further Researching Beneath the Surface (Volume 2).

Mersky, R. R.

From 2009 to 2017, I was a doctoral student connected to the Centre for Psycho-social Studies at UWE in Bristol (now…

A fractured landscape: a systems psychodynamic investigation into the experience of a partially distributed team of therapists in an Australian child protection system

Dent, N

Using a systems psychodynamic stance, this research employs a qualitative case study based on interviews, observation…

Methods of Research into the Unconscious: Applying Psychoanalytic Ideas to Social Sciences

Mersky, R. R., Sievers, B

The Social Photo-Matrix (SPM) and Social Dream-Drawing (SDD) are two action research methods designed to access the u…

Border protection - creating 'good enough' psychic and physical workspace in a refugee support organisation

Rob Ryan

This paper describes, analyses and draws upon the experiences of a consulting pair working on a change project with t…

Experiencing outdoor spaces and places from within: Adventure therapy and systems psychoanalysis

Martin Ringer, Judit Gaspar

This paper on Experiencing outdoor spaces and places from within provides an examination of the way in which particip…

Bach is the answer, now what was the question?

Mark Argent

The starting point of this paper is a question at the OPUS conference 2016. Gerry Fromm's keynote was about the traum…

The Changing Dining Hall in the Kibbutz An Empty Heart of a Prolonged Trauma - A Dialogue between an Architect and a Psychoanalyst

Gabi Bonwitt, Amnon Bar Or

Denial of traumatic history increases the danger of repeating the trauma again and again in terms of Freud's repetiti…

Working across time and space: a fractured landscape

Nuala Dent

With recent improvements in digital technology (such as increased bandwidth, smart phones and tablets, cloud servers,…

Dreams always take place - An integrative theory of dreaming underlying Social Dreaming

Rose Redding Mersky, PhD

Social Dreaming has been a key offering at ISPSO annual meetings since the 1996 meeting in New York City, when it was…

Transitional spaces vs domestic spaces: psychoanalytical reflections based on artificial intelligence and its applications

Dr Thibault de Swarte

Transitional spaces vs domestic spaces: psychoanalytical reflections based on artificial intelligence and its applications.

Enabling participation: emotions, relations and reflexive reorganization of local institutions

Dr Matias Sanfuentes & Dr Matias Garreton

This article presents a critical analysis of a participatory action research between the authors' institution and the…

Social Dream-Drawing (SDD): Research and Praxis

Mersky, R.R.

Social Dream-Drawing is a socioanalytic praxis conceived, developed and researched by myself as a psycho-social actio…

Reflections on Ethical Issues in Psychoanalytic and Psychological Organizations: The IPA / Lobo-Cabernite and APA / Guantanamo Scandals

Diana Gartland

It is a well known understanding that psychoanalysis and, in fact, the human mind functions best in an atmosphere of…

The First Fleet: Australia's unconscious chosen trauma and its impact on its asylum seeker policies.

Jenny Smith

This paper will respond to the policies of the current Australian Government on the treatment of asylum seekers who h…

A personal journey of understanding the question of Muslim woman identity in Turkish and Western contexts.

Muzaffer Mustafa

My purpose in this presentation is to introduce the work of Rene Girard to those in this audience who may not be fami…

Ethical Management as Meaning Making in a University

John Newton, Diana Dalton, Cathy Whelan

Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world…

Political Correctness and Political In-correctness A psychoanalytictic study of new authoritarians

Dr Simon Western

Political correctness (PC) has been a growing trend since the 1980's and has been in the spotlight recently, particul…

Emotional Communications of Transference and Countertransference as an Instrument of Working with Organizational Unconscious Defenses in the Format of Psychoanalytic Business Coaching.

Irina Izotova

Modern business organizations face challenging dilemmas in how they choose to act in the new reality of low stability…

Fifteen words on a Portal - Ethical Dilemmas in a Government School

Rob Ryan

In October 2015, a large Melbourne-based daily newspaper had a headline:' State school fee shock on enrolment'. The a…

Skating on thin ice. How to balance rights based public accountability, regulatory oversight as an obligatory governance function and the value of independence and peer evaluation in appointing judges and professors?

Ajeet Mathur

The appointment of judges and professors is of profound significance in any society. The free and fair functioning of…

Forsaken desires: The dark side of Employee Engagement

Mark Stringer

What is being demanded from a worker's unconscious in organisational efforts to increase employee engagement? The con…

Understanding Difference: The Role of Ethics and Self-awareness in Organizations

Sari Mattila

Increasingly we are faced with differences which people find difficult to comprehend, hold in their awareness and man…

Whose Deontology?! Treating the Other with respect: When Swiss aid turned into Egyptian imposition

Dr. Nadine Riad Tcelebi

The proposed paper meets the following selection criteria: 1) Connection to AM Theme. The argument details a case stu…

Passion or Procrastination: The psychodynamics of big bet decisions

Larry Hirschhorn

In this paper I explore the psychodynamics of big bet decisions; decisions, that if implemented, promise big payoffs…

Consulting to ethical responses to boundary violations in therapy organisations: an occupational hazard in need of organisational consultation

Richard Morgan-Jones

There is growing awareness, shock and publicity about the abuse of professional boundaries by clergy as well as by th…

Learning from leaders in a conflict zone: A psychoanalytical inquiry into leadership within an international non governmental development aid context.

Rachel Ellison

This research asked two questions: 1. International non governmental development aid: What does it take to be an effe…

Panel Presentation on Pathway to Power in Politics. Hillary Clinton under the lens of Organizational Role Analysis

Alicia Kaufmann

Introduction and objectives. Gender equity is a primary objective of external politics of the United States. The thre…

Relationships at work in the prison system.

Judith Bell

The presentation draws on work done in a women's prison with the original brief to 'improve relationships'. The proje…

The ethics of questioning unconscious investment in turning a blind eye

Philip Boxer

This paper describes a two year intervention within an organization providing residential care for men and women wit…

Networks, borders and boundaries

Steen Visholm, Dorte Sandeger

The paper presents a number of basic concepts that we have developed to capture the impact of space and design on soc…

Leadership is Cheating Management

Thomas Hoffman

The ego ideal of ethical leadership, reified and deified over decades by being trumpeted in the business literature,…