Social Defences Against Anxiety Explorations in a Paradigm.
by
 
Armstrong, David.

Title
Social Defences Against Anxiety Explorations in a Paradigm.

Author
Armstrong, David.

ISBN
9781782413387

Personal Author
Armstrong, David.

Publication Information
London : Karnac Books, 2014.

Physical Description
1 online resource (401 p.)

Series
The Tavistock Clinic Series
 
The Tavistock Clinic Series.

General Note
Description based upon print version of record.

Contents
COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: revisiting the paradigm; PART I Theoretical; CHAPTER ONE Obsessional-punitive defences in care systems: Menzies Lyth revisited; CHAPTER TWO Beyond identifying social defences: "working through" and lessons from people whispering; CHAPTER THREE A psycho-social perspective on social defences; CHAPTER FOUR Social defences in the information age; CHAPTER FIVE Defences against innovation: the conservation of vagueness
 
CHAPTER SIX Reconceptualizing social defences for the purpose of organizational change: causes, consequences, and the contribution of cultural theoryPART II Health and nursing; CHAPTER SEVEN Reflections on Isabel Menzies Lyth in the light of developments in nursing care; CHAPTER EIGHT "I'm beyond caring": a response to the Francis Report; CHAPTER NINE Anxiety at the front line; CHAPTER TEN A partnership of policing and health systems: containing the dynamics of sexual violence; CHAPTER ELEVEN Running the gauntlet of institutional defence: from the prison gate to the hospital wing
 
PART III The private sectorCHAPTER TWELVE Extreme work environments: beyond anxiety and social defence; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Corporate cultures and inner conflicts; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Defences against anxiety in the law; PART IV Social welfare and education; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Spotlit: defences against anxiety in contemporary human service organizations; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Still not good enough! Must try harder: an exploration of social defences in schools; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Work discussion groups as a container for sexual anxieties in schools
 
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Social defences in nurseries and the contemporary value of the conceptCHAPTER NINETEEN Projective identification and unconscious defences against anxiety: social work education, practice learning, and the fear of failure; CHAPTER TWENTY Unconscious defences against anxiety in a Youth Offending Service; REFERENCES; INDEX

Abstract
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have been influential points of reference ever since. Menzies Lyth's study of the nursing system of a general hospital, with its roots in both psychoanalysis and socio-technical systems thinking, has remained one of the most convincing demonstrations of the influence of unconscious anxieties on social behaviour, and of their effects in inducing dysfunctional defensive systems in organisations. The the.

Subject Term
Anxiety.
 
Psychoanalysis.
 
Social behavior.
 
Social phobia.
 
PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology
 
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General
 
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness
 
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success
 
Anxiety. (OCoLC)fst00810950
 
Social phobia. (OCoLC)fst01122723

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Rustin, Michael.

Electronic Access
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