OPUS Vol.2 No.1: Organisational and Social Dynamics

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Contents:

Remembering Eric Miller
Laurence J. Gould and Paul Hoggett

The Life of Isabel Menzies-Lyth
Branka Pecotic

Lessons from Working to Regenerate Services in Post-Conflict Recovery Scenarios
Renate Grønvold Bugge

Ghosts in the Corridors of Business Administration Schools: The 'Unconscious' at Work
Oren Kaplan and Maly Solan

The Vicissitudes of Identity
Eric Miller

Making Present: Reflections on a Neglected Function of Leadership and its Contemporary Relevance
David Armstrong

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions": Quality Assurance as a Social Defence Against Anxiety
Anne-Marie Cummins

'Dangerous Liaisons': Projective Identification, Basic Assumption Envy, and the Conflict between Love and Hate in the Relationship between Two Psychiatric Teams
Matthieu Daum

The Snark Effect, or: Beware the New Idea
Robert French

Notes about the author(s):

Laurence J. Gould PhD was the director of the Socio-Psychoanalytic Training Program, The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). He was also the founding co-director of the Program in Organizational Development and Consultation in Israel, and a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). Dr Gould was a co-editor of The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations (Karnac, 2001), and Experiential Learning in Organizations (Karnac, 2004). In addition, he was the founding co-editor of Organizational and Social Dynamics. Dr Gould practised psychoanalysis and organizational consultation in New York City.

Paul Hoggett is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, Associate Member of the Lincoln and is also an experienced group relations consultant. His books include Partisans in an Uncertain World and Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare. He is a board member of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and has editorial roles on Organisational & Social Dynamics, Psychodynamic Practice and Psychoanalysis Culture and Society