Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Psychosocial and Organization Studies
Affect at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of psychosocial approaches to organization studies and critical management studies.
by Stanley R. Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, Jim Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics,...
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults
Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a necessary transitional time, parents inevitably experience feelings of loss and longing for the past...
Working Across the Gap
The Practice of Social Science in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The author's experience of applying the social sciences in organizations must be unique. Her work is grounded in research but much of her professional activity has been in application, combining the methods and findings of research with an understanding of dynamics in working with organizations....
The Supervisory Relationship
A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In the past two decades, many psychodynamic therapists have begun to view the relational processes taking place between patient and therapist as a central source of transformation. Yet traditional paradigms of clinical supervision, focusing primarily on didactic teaching, have limitations for training...
Lacanian Psychotherapy
Theory and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The work of Jacques Lacan is associated more with literature and philosophy than mainstream American psychology, due in large part to the dense language he employs in articulating his theory – including often at the expense of clinical illustration. As a result, his contributions are frequently...
War Is Not Inevitable
On the Psychology of War and Aggression
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In 1932 Einstein asked Freud, ‘Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?’ Freud answered that war is inevitable because humans have an instinct to self-destroy, a death instinct which we must externalize to survive. But nearly four decades of study of aggression reveal that...
Strategy of Therapy
Toward the Engineering of Social Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Featuring contributions from a range of organizational contexts, Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations identifies the key features to group analytic practice as well as how different theoretical orientations, such as Systemic and Tavistock Consultancy approaches, can be incorporated...
by David P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work: guilt,...
The Art and Science of Working Together
Practising Group Analysis in Teams and Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Art and Science of Working Together: Practising Group Analysis in Teams and Organizations is a primary resource for anyone wishing to learn more about the complex unconscious dynamics of organizations, providing a practical guide for organizational work, a guide to how to improve things, and a...
The Psychotic Wavelength
A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing psychiatric patients with psychoses, including...
The First Year and the Rest of Your Life
Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression – in short, this language remains a key element in communication...
Working with Trauma
Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan by Marilyn Charles takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with more severely disturbed patients, for whom trauma has impeded their psychosocial...