Trauma and Organizations

ISBN-13: 9781855757790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 284 str.

Earl Hopper; W. Gordon Lawrence

Opis

This collection of new contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organizational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organizations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous. Among the organizations 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 organizational citizenship.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- Processes and Systems -- A study in institutional change: the experience of trauma and the role of rumour in a case of paranoiagenesis -- Traumatogenic processes in a psychiatric hospital: unconscious destructiveness of leadership change -- Trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process -- Baked beans and mashed potato: the basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in organizations treating adolescents with eating disorders -- A study of trauma and scapegoating in the context of incohesion: an example from the oil industry -- The survival and development of a traumatized clinic for psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities -- Leaders and Leadership -- Personal trauma and collective disorder: the example of organizational psychodynamics in psychiatry -- Disorganized responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatized organizations -- Trauma and leadership succession: congregational leadership transition in the context of socio-cultural change -- Leaders and groups in traumatized and traumatizing organizations: a matter of everyday survival -- Organizations in traumatized societies: the Israeli case* -- Two perspectives on a trauma in a training group: the systems-centred approach and the theory of incohesion -- Building individual resilience and organizational hardiness: addressing post-trauma worker's block*

O autorze

Hopper, Earl