Organisational Psychology Books
Leading with Depth: The Impact of Emotions and Relationships on Leadership
Leadership goes well beyond efficient management, and the significance of emotions on the success of organisations is often underestimated. In Leading With Depth: The Impact of Emotions and... (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 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)
Systems Psychodynamics: Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity
In the second of this three-volume series, the authors expand on the theory and practice of systems psychodynamics – which integrates psychoanalytic thinking, open systems theory and complexity... (more)
What Lies Beneath: How Organisations Really Work
This book looks beyond the public face and below the surface of organisations. Using a deceptively easy-to-read and accessible narrative concerning eight international organisations, it covers many... (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)
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)
British Psychology in Crisis: A Case Study in Organisational Dysfunction
Riven by poor governance and outright corruption, the British Psychological Society (BPS) may now be in terminal decline. Individual members have left it in despair and some groups (for example... (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)
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)
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)
Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy
This book explores a theoretical model – the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF) - used to understand the complexities and ambiguities of experience within organisational life. The TEF explores... (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)
Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing
We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking.... (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)
Systems Psychodynamics: Theorist and Practitioner Voices from the Field
Through a series of in-depth interviews with Tavistock thinkers across three generations, this volume illustrates the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational... (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)
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 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)
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)
Psychodynamics for Consultants and Managers
This book explores the ways in which psychoanalytic thinking can be more extensively and effectively used to the benefit of organizations and groups. It provides future and practicing consultants and... (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)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.8 No.1
Contents in this issue:
Competition and Coherence: Creating a New Balance Between Economic Change and Organizational Identity in Mental Health Care Organizations
- Mathias Lohmer
Where... (more)
From Transformation to TransformaCtion: Methods and Practices
This book describes a journey of discovery from transformation to transformaCtion that extends and enhances the life of the organization. The journey occurs on the seas of anxiety and passion, which... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.6 No.2
Included in this issue:
When Faith Eclipses Hope; Forgiveness Within Reparation
- Lindsey Nicholls
Broad Based Organising: Reflective Citizenship and Political Action
- Paul...
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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)
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)
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)
It's an Emotional Game: Learning about Leadership from Football
Based on work in the anxiety-provoking and emotional environment of professional football, this book explores the effect that emotions have on the relationships and relatedness of team members; and,... (more)