Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
Book Details
- Publisher : Whurr Publishers
- Published : 2001
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Organisational Psychology - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 13299
- ISBN 13 : 9781861562142
- ISBN 10 : 1861562144
Reviews and Endorsements
Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups, organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been many different approaches. This book brings together the contributions to a field which could be called "psychoanalytic social psychology". The substantial introductory chapters by the editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on social groups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eight chapters from eminent authors from Europe, the Americas and the UK.
"This is an absorning and important book, important to both students of society and its institutions but important also to psychoanalysts, not only to those who work in healthcare institutions but also to those other psychoanalysts who confine themselves to work with individual patients in consulting rooms. The interst of this last group in institutions and society is usually confined to puzzlement over the strange antics of their professional societies, but perhaps Hinshelwood and Chiesa will persuade them into other pastures." - Elizabeth Spillius