Rome 2015

THE AIR WE BREATHE

Toxic Emotions, Organizational Health, and Social Well-Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding and Interventions

ISA Congress Center
Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Via del Commercio 13, Rome, Italy.

FRIDAY 12th June, 2015

8:00-9:00 Social Dreaming / Yoga

9:15-9:45 Welcome, Symposium Opening
with Gerard Fromm, Mario Perini, Fabio D'Apice

9:45-11:00 Keynote 1

Manfred Kets de Vries "Toxic leaders and beyond"

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:00 Paper Session 1

• The Ordinary (?) Crazyness of Organisations - G. Amado
• Hierarchy's impact on organizational toxicity: Co-production by Tops and Middles - T. Gilmore & D.Bing
• Emergence and consequences of neurotic emotions C.Chemin-Bouzir
• Influence of Negative Narcissism - D.Bonnet
• Unconscious processes in organizations - S.Long
• Learning from a working conference in the United Reformed Church - M.Argent

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-16:00 Paper Session 2

• Lacan and the libidinal economies of organizations. Panel: S.Western, P.Boxer, J.Trela, B.Williams
• The Libidinal Economy Of Healthcare S.Western
• Working Forensically With Toxic Thinking P.Boxer
• Resistance and Solidarity: Organizing for Women’s Human Rights B.Williams
• Keeping the lights on. Panel: J.Smith, N.Barrett, C.Ryan
• Honesty and dishonesty in the financial sector. Panel: R.Czegledi-Brown & K.Eisold
• Who is to blame for the Poison we ate? Always ‘Us’ – Never ‘Them’. Shadow behavior and toxic spillover. - N.Tchelebi, N.Chanpreet Kaur & al.
• Emotional toxicity in two institutional contexts. - D.Zaccheroni & al. , R.Barbe
• Containing function in an adolescent hospital inpatient unit E.Cottingham
• When talent is the ‘currency of trade’ - B.Nossal
• Toxicity in space: Bullying around vacuums and ‘black holes’ S.White

16:00-16:30 Afternoon Tea

16:30-17:45 Paper Session 3

• Where is love? Toxicity and rivalry in a family business - F.Cardona & D.Raffaelli
• How toxic can silencing and detrimental contracts be. - S.Metzer & S.Silberman
• CHANGES: A Project to Explore Youth, Authority, and Toxicity K.Mueller-Heaslip & S.Jinasena
• The Struggle of Staying with Toxic Emotions… When All you Want to do is Leave: An exploration of the idea of mindfulness in fostering negative capability L.Svalgaard
• Who watches the watchers? - C.Scanlon
• Authority. A Lifelong Source of Toxicity - L.Stapley

17:45-18:15 Reflections on the Day

20:00 Piazzale Ostiense: Departure by private Bus for the Gala Dinner venue

SATURDAY 13th June

8:00-9:00 Social Dreaming / Yoga

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:30-9:45 Stefano Bolognini (IPA President): Greetings

9:45-11:00 Keynote 2

Bénédicte Vidaillet "The 'need for recognition at work': non-problem or mission impossible?"

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:45 Paper Session 4

• The psychodynamics of engagement at work. - L.Hirschhorn
• Transforming toxicity in organisations and society. - R.Morgan-Jones:
• The building is toxic. - W.Czander
• A technique to treat toxicity in organizations. C.Revere & al.
• Toxicity and the Leader's revenge. - M.Stein & G.Petriglieri
• Why haven’t psychoanalysts been leaders in the climate movement? - S.Spieler

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14.00-14.30 Book Presentation "La Psicoanalisi e le sue Istituzioni" [Psychoanalysis and its Institutions"] by Ken Eisold

14:15-15:15 Open Space

• Discussion on “toxic authority” - S.Western
• Discussion on “sibling dynamics” - J.Sirota
• Discussion on "Making systems psychodynamic writing accessible to a non-psychoanalytic audience" - M. Ringer
• Meeting for Committee members and chairs of regional activities, current, past and future. - LARA Committee
• Climate Change: What Can Our Community Do? - S.Spieler

15:15-15:45 Afternoon Tea

15:45-17:30

• Human uses of human beings. A.Mathur
• Could robots contribute to improve social well-being? T.De Swarte
• A Somalian Pirates attack and its toxic aftermath M.Ringer
• Breathing below ground. - M.Sanfuentes
• Taking it personally. Toxic stress and toxic environments In health systems. - K.Trainor & M.Hernandez
• Psychopathy and Greed. Envy at work K.Eisold & M.Culcasi

17:30-18:15 Reflections on the Day

SUNDAY 14th June