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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion, (Ed.)

Dr Robert French

This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively…

An inversion of power: an analysis of the British riots of 2011

Schwartz, H., Liefooghe, A.

The response of the British cultural institutions to the riots of August 2011 was that they were caused by British so…

Metodologias Contemporaneas Para Concientizar Y Actuar sobre la dinamica inconsciente en organizaciones: Exploracion del dise?

Rose Redding Mersky

RESUMEN: Analisis del Rol Organizacional, Matriz de Suenos Sociales, Matriz de Foto Social y Dibujo de Suenos Sociale…

The Dynamics of Change: Tavistock approaches to improving social systems

Dr Mannie Sher

The papers included in this book are reflections of the important approaches (theories and practices) that originated…

Diagnosing organisational work cultures: a socioanalytic approach

Dr Jinette de Gooijer

Assessing the health of organisational work cultures through a socioanalytic approach takes into consideration the so…

Diagnosing organisational work cultures: a socioanalytic approach

Dr Jinette de Gooijer

Assessing the health of organisational work cultures through a socioanalytic approach takes into consideration the so…

Social Dream-Drawing: 'Drawing brings the inside out'

Mersky, R. R.

The use of individual dreams and dream material to illuminate social processes was pioneered by the work of Gordon La…

Social Dream-Drawing: 'Drawing brings the inside out'

Mersky, R. R.

The use of individual dreams and dream material to illuminate social processes was pioneered by the work of Gordon La…

Intimacy And Detachment - Working Relationships In A Temporary Institution

Angela Eden, David Sierra Lazano

Professional relationships are built in a specific setting, in a work environment. On Group Relations events, the con…

The Twitter Revolution: how the internet has changed us

Boxer, P. J.

This chapter explores what psychoanalytic thinking can add to our current understanding of the ubiquitous Twitter phe…

The Capacity for Ethical Conduct: On Psychic Existence and the Way We Relate to Others

Levine, D. P.

What is the root cause of ethical failure? Why is preoccupation with ethics more a part of the problem than a part of…

Disorganised responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatised organisations

Scanlon, C., & Adlam, j.

A substantial literature attests that practitioners who are charged with the delivery of health and social care to th…

The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a GEM

Nurick, A. J.

The central questions of this book are: How do the best managers behave? What sets them apart from their peers? What…

The Hedgehog Effect: The Secrets of Building High Performance Teams

Kets de Vries, M. F.

The Hedgehog Effect' refers to Schopenhauer's parable describing how hedgehogs need to huddle together for warmth in…

Reflections on Groups and Organizations: On the Couch With Manfred Kets de Vries

Kets de Vries, M. F.

The third book in this series, Reflections on Groups and Organizations, broadens Kets de Varies canvas and examines c…

Lacan and Organization

Cederstrom, C. & Hoedemaekers C. (eds)

The work of Jacques Lacan has become an influential source to most disciplines of the social sciences, and is now con…

Reflections on Leadership and Career Development -On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

Kets de Vries, M. F.

The second book in this series, Reflections on Leadership and Career Development, takes different perspectives on the…

Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching

KETS DE VRIES, M. F., BERNHARDT , A., KOROTOV , K., & FLORENT-TREACY , E.

Tricky Coaching stimulates the exchange of knowledge, ideas and coaching experience among psychologists, coaches and…

Figure di Leader: Le sfide della Leadership nei Cambiamenti della vita Organizzativa Reflections on Leadership and Career Development.

Kets-de-Vries, M. F.

Manfred Kets de Vries on the Couch series. Here, Kets de Vries takes an in-depth look at the way basic psychological…

Drawing Down the Blinds on Reflection: What is to be shut out, or in

Dr Jinette de Gooijer

The concern of this chapter is on the use and experience of reflection in organisational work, whether this be from t…

The Blame Game

Dattner, B.

Synopsis: For better or for worse, the dynamics of credit and blame are at the heart of every team and organization a…

Reflections on Groups and Organisations

Kets de Vries, M. F.

In the books in this series Manfred Kets de Vries failed engineer, entrepreneur manqu, reluctant economist, internati…

The Capacity for Civic Engagement: Public and Private Worlds of the Self

Levine, D. P.

This book is about connection, about the different kinds of connection and the different meanings they embody. My in…

Working with hard-to-reach patients in difficult places - a Democratic Therapeutic Community approach to clinical consultation

Adlam, J.

The difficult relationship between the forensic patient and the system of care is characterised by the giving and tak…

Alone Together. Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Turkle, S.

Sherry Turkle studies the relationship between people and technology - how does technology change our ways of seeing…

Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction

Schwartz, H.

Chapter One of Society Against Itself: Political Correction and the Self-Destruction of Organization. 2010

Zu einer Sozioanalyse der Finanzkrise

Sievers, B.

Wahrend es anfangs noch so schien, als wazre die Finanzkrise nur eine Krise der US-amerikanischen Banken, so ist sie…

What You Dont Know You Know: Our Hidden Motives in Life, Business, and Everything Else

Eisold, K.

The unconscious sprang to the attention of the West a hundred years ago, and we are still struggling to absorb its fu…

Reflexes sobre Carter e Liderana Reflections on Character and Leadership

Kets de Vries, M. F.

In the books in this series Manfred Kets de Vries - failed engineer, entrepreneur manqu, reluctant economist, interna…

The Myth that Binds

Krantz, J.

In one sense, a prologue is entirely superfluous because the each author provides a rich and compelling context of un…

Object Relations, Work and the Self

Levine, D. P.

Why do people work and what meaning does work have for them? At one time the answer to these questions directed our a…

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World

Brunning, H.,Perini, M.,

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a turbulent world EDITORS NOTES Although the initial idea of editing a book on this…

The Coaching Kaleidoscope; Insights from the Inside

Kets-de-Vries, M. F., Guillen, L., Korotov, K., & Florent-Treacy, E.

This book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team, a…

Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction

Schwartz, H. S.

Political correctness involves much more than a restriction of speech. It represents a broad cultural transformation,…

Un marco para la consultoria del role organizacional

Krantz, J., & Maltz, M.

El rol es un componente slave en cualquier cambio organizacional y un lugar crItico para que dicho cambio se inicie.…

The Murder in Merger: a systems psychodynamic exploration of a corporate merger

Dr Jinette de Gooijer

In-depth research of an organisational merger process over 3 year period. The research conducted for PhD dissertation.

Sex, Money, Happiness and Death: The Quest for Authenticity

Kets de Vries, M. F.

Manfred Kets de Vries takes readers out of their comfort zone in his latest book, which has grown out of his convicti…

Reflections on Leadership and Career Development

Kets de Vries, M. F.

The second book in this series, Reflections on Leadership and Career Development, takes different perspectives on the…

Private Selves in Public Organizations

Diamond, M. A.,Allcorn, S.,

This book is about the psychodynamics of analyzing and changing organizations. Michael Diamond and Seth Allcorn defin…

Why do you treat me this way?': reciprocal violence and the mythology of deliberate self harm

Scanlon, C., & Adlam, j.

Traumatised people who attack, poison or mutilate their own bodies do so both as a defence against a set of impulses…

Die psychotische Universitat: Sozioanalytische Perspektive einer Organisation im verordneten Wandel

Sievers, B.

Nach der Internationalen Klassifikation der Krankheiten bezeichnet die Psychose wahnhafte oder halluzinatorische Star…

Forward: Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations

Krantz, J.

A volume presented on behalf of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). The…

Sharing Thoughts on Leadership and Friendship

Dr Robert French

Modern ways of thinking place friendship firmly in the private sphere and view a leader's friendship networks with su…

Coaching for leadership development: A systems-psychodynamic approach

Bell, J., Huffington, C.

This chapter sets out some basic systems psychodynamic concepts as they apply to organisational leadership. It sugges…