
Trauma and Organizations.
Title:
Trauma and Organizations.
Author:
Hopper, Earl.
ISBN:
9781849407588
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
The New International Library of Group Analysis
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems -- PART I PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER ONE A study in institutional change: the experience of trauma and the role of rumour in a case of paranoiagenesis -- CHAPTER TWO Traumatogenic processes in a psychiatric hospital: unconscious destructiveness of leadership change -- CHAPTER THREE Trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process -- CHAPTER FOUR Baked beans and mashed potato: the basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in organizations treating adolescents with eating disorders -- CHAPTER FIVE A study of trauma and scapegoating in the context of incohesion: an example from the oil industry -- CHAPTER SIX The survival and development of a traumatized clinic for psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities -- PART II LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP -- CHAPTER SEVEN Personal trauma and collective disorder: the example of organizational psychodynamics in psychiatry -- CHAPTER EIGHT Disorganized responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatized organizations -- CHAPTER NINE Trauma and leadership succession: congregational leadership transition in the context of socio-cultural change -- CHAPTER TEN Leaders and groups in traumatized and traumatizing organizations: a matter of everyday survival -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Organizations in traumatized societies: the Israeli case -- CHAPTER TWELVE Two perspectives on a trauma in a training group: the systems-centred approach and the theory of incohesion -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building individual resilience and organizational hardiness: addressing post-trauma worker's block -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This collection of new contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organisational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organisations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous. Among the organisations studied are hospitals and clinics for the care and treatment of the mentally ill and the intellectually disabled; prisons; international industrial and financial firms; trade unions; universities and institutes for training mental health professionals; and churches.Drawing from Freudian, Kleinian, Independent and Lacanian perspectives in psychoanalysis and from Foulkesian and Bionian perspectives in group analysis, the authors illustrate the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification, and elucidate the painful personifications of it. Of special interest are the transmission of psychotic anxieties and the traumatic enactments of them, especially when people are insensitive to the rights and obligations of organisational citizenship.With an Epilogue by Gordon Lawrence, Ph.D.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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