Organisational Psychology Books
The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking
After eighteen frustrating months heading a specialist adolescent unit, Philip Stokoe applied for a training in consultation at the Tavistock Clinic based on the ‘Tavi’ aka ‘group relations’ model.... (more)
The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations
The idea of The Covid Trail developed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the language of psychoanalysis and system psychodynamic thinking, it seeks to find a way to think about and... (more)
The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life: Second Edition
Why do our organizations so often seem to be less than the sum of their parts? What undermines effectiveness and morale, and gets in the way of achieving what we set out to do?
The Unconscious... (more)
An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics: Consultancy Research and Training
This book provides an introduction to systems psychodynamic theory and its application to organisational consultancy, research and training, outlining systems dynamics methods and their historical... (more)
Workplace Intelligence: Unconscious Forces and How to Manage Them
Workplace Intelligence provides a range of insights into the unconscious processes at play in the workplace and an introduction to a balanced approach to organizations.
The book explores key... (more)
Trauma and Organizations
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... (more)
The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating the Group Relations Approach, Psychoanalytic, and Open Systems Perspectives
This authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspective defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that... (more)
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work
Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year Award
Who do you bring with you to work?
Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we... (more)
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have... (more)
Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations: Contributions from the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO)
This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last twenty-five years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the... (more)
Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy
David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the... (more)
Executive Coaching
A collection of papers by well-known contemporary writers that describe their own models of coaching and their thoughts on the theoretical roots that underpin their thinking and coaching practice. (more)
Experiential Learning in Organizations: Applications of the Tavistock Group Relations Approach
This is an authoritative sourcebook on a major strand of Group Relations Theory - "learning from experience". This approach was developed jointly from psychoanalytic and open systems theories,... (more)
Working Below the Surface: The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations
The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the... (more)
Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations
This text integrates current knowledge of the psychodynamics of individuals, groups and organizations into a theoretical framework. The author shows how the interplay of libidinal and aggressive... (more)
Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts: The Hidden Forces that Shape the Workplace
This fascinating book shows how an understanding of the psychodynamics of the extended family, from parental relations to sibling rivalries, can provide insight into many of the key issues faced by... (more)
Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in... (more)
Psychodynamic Organisational Theory: Key Concepts and Case Studies
On the surface, people go to work and come home again. They sometimes manage people while most are managed themselves. But beneath the function and structures of the work itself, a whole range of... (more)
The Art and Science of Working Together: Practising Group Analysis in Teams and Organisations
The Art and Science of Working Together: Practising Group Analysis in Teams and Organisations is a primary resource for anyone wishing to learn more about the complex unconscious dynamics of... (more)
Social Dreaming: Philosophy, Research, Theory and Practice
The idea of social dreaming argues that dreams are relevant to the wider social sphere and have a collective resonance that goes beyond the personal narrative.
In this fascinating collection,... (more)
The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame
In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations... (more)
Gender, Power and Organization: A Psychological Perspective: Second Edition
Work organisations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not... (more)
True Tales of Organisational Life
The context in which healthcare is delivered continues to be one of extreme organisational turbulence and increasing workload, factors that exacerbate the anxiety felt by staff about keeping... (more)
The Art of Group Analysis in Organisations: The Use of Intuitive and Experiential Knowledge
Leaders, teams and organisational consultants are faced with a situation of permanent transitions. The current world of organisations is full of beginnings and incomplete endings. The author assumes... (more)
Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability
'This fascinating book, the last in a trilogy on psychoanalytic reflections, edited by Halina Brunning, explores power and vulnerability in three related areas: Leadership and Organizations, the... (more)
Fed with Tears - Poisoned with Milk: The Nazareth Group-Relations Conferences: Germans and Israelis - The Past in the Present
With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
This volume aims to make a unique and significant contribution to the proliferating literature on German-Israeli relatedness in the post-Holocaust era.... (more)
Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions
Staff burnout and work-related stress in mental health professionals cost the National Health Service not only millions of pounds each year, but also impact upon the welfare of those being cared for.... (more)
The Body of the Organisation and its Health
Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis, group relations, systemic organisational observation, consulting and research, this book explores the relationship between the health of the work force and the... (more)
Organizations Connected: A Handbook of Systemic Consultation
In this book, each contributor describes the way they use the systemic model in their consultancy practice. Their key ideas are illustrated via a case example (or examples), where possible including... (more)
Coaching in Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach
Coaching In Depth introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis (ORA); a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay “in... (more)