Organisational Psychology Books at Karnac Books

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)

The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life: Second Edition

Edited by Anton Obholzer, Vega Zagier Roberts

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)

Malignant Narcissism and Power: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Madness and Leadership

by Charles Zeiders, Peter Devlin

Using psychodynamic theory and riveting case material, this book dissects the figure of the malignant narcissist leader (MNL). Across the world today, individuals and societies are impacted by... (more)

Work Matters: Consulting to leaders and organizations in the Tavistock tradition

by Francesca Cardona

Work is complicated: It can be fulfilling and exciting, or disappointing and disruptive. We spend most of our adult lives at work; it shapes our identities and provides a context for our creativity... (more)

The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking

by Philip Stokoe

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)

Workplace Wellbeing: A Relational Approach

by James Costello

Workplace Wellbeing - A Relational Approach presents the most important, insightful and up-to-date academic thinking and research related to flourishing at work. It also describes the transformative... (more)

Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm

Edited by David Armstrong, Michael Rustin

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)

Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy

by David Armstrong

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)

The Problems with Teamwork, and How to Solve Them

by Annika Lantz Freidrich, Daniela Ulber

This book offers practical, evidence-based solutions to help professionals implement and support effective teamwork. Lantz, Ulber and Friedrich draw on their considerable professional experience to... (more)

An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Workplace Bullying

by Sheila White

This book gives in-depth insights into the core issues of workplace bullying from the perspectives of the individuals involved, their interpersonal relationships, the group dynamics and... (more)

Trauma and Organizations

Edited by Earl Hopper

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 Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins

by Susan Long

There is evidence of a movement from 'a culture of narcissism' toward elements of a perverse culture. This book brings forth and examines the evidence as it reveals itself through one of the major... (more)

Working Below the Surface: The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations

Edited by Clare Huffington, William Halton

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)

Organizations Connected: A Handbook of Systemic Consultation

Edited by David Campbell, Clare Huffington

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)

Individuals, Groups and Organizations Beneath the Surface: An Introduction

by Lionel F. Stapley

This volume is an introductory text to the individual and organizational dynamics by an author with extensive experience in the field. It examines the unconscious processes of human behaviour that... (more)

Coaching in Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach

Edited by John Newton, Burkard Sievers

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)

Executive Coaching: Systems-Psychodynamic Perspective

Edited by Halina Brunning

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)

Learning for Leadership: Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations

by A.K. Rice

This study is designed to teach readers of the human problems of leadership, and to show new conceptions of leadership and new methods of training relevant to our modern industrial society.

This... (more)

From Career to Calling: A Depth Psychology Guide to Soul-Making Work in Darkening Times

by Suzanne Cremen

Finding and following an authentic calling challenges us to bridge both the intuitive, soulful and the hard-edged, material dimensions of everyday life. From Career to Calling: A Depth Psychology... (more)

The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame

by Clive Hazell, Mark Kiel

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)

Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems

Edited by Susan Long

Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these... (more)

The Body of the Organisation and its Health

by Richard Morgan-Jones

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)

The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating the Group Relations Approach, Psychoanalytic, and Open Systems Perspectives

Edited by Laurence J. Gould, Mark Stein

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)

From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change

by Eric Miller

The author draws on the experiences of three decades of working as an organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory, and... (more)

Leadership and the Ethics of Influence

by Terry Price

How do leaders influence others? Although they sometimes appeal directly to good reasons, which we associate with rational persuasion, leaders also use guilt, pressure, flattery, bullying, and... (more)

Psychodynamic Organisational Theory: Key Concepts and Case Studies

by Jacob Alsted, Ditte Haslund

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)

Social Dreaming: Philosophy, Research, Theory and Practice

Edited by Susan Long, Julian Manley

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 Art of Dialogue in Coaching: Towards Transformative Exchange

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