Organisational Psychology Books
How Do We Even Talk about Palestine and Israel?: One Group’s Experience in Unspoken Territory
The world changed on 7 October 2023 when Hamas and other armed groups made incursions into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 1200 people and the taking of... (more)
Bringing Your Heart to Work: A Seven-Step Journey to Mental Health and Wellbeing
A life-affirming guide to help you reconnect with your purpose, learn to work in alignment with your values, and choose a healthier approach to success. Written by global mental health specialist... (more)
Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories
A powerful, multifaceted collection of accounts of what it means to be Jewish; to live under the shadow of anti-Semitism and unspoken threat of emigration. This diverse, minority community is marked... (more)
Gods, Heroes and Groups: Relational Dynamics through Mythic Archetypes
Decoding group dynamics using depth psychology and mythic archetypes, the authors synthesise post-Jungian ideas about myth with modern theories of group psychology. By understanding the currents and... (more)
Not Acceptable: An Exploration of Workplace Bullying
A well-written, easily accessible, and informative book for those who want to understand the meaning of and effects caused by bullying in the workplace. It is a useful tool for those who support... (more)
Group as a Whole: Learning for Leadership, Authority and Organisation
The focus of this volume is on groups. The approach taken is to study groups from the perspective of the group as a whole, which provides a totally different perspective from studying individual... (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)
Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics
Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics examines the world using a systemic and psychoanalytic lens, including concepts of splitting, separation, projection,... (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)
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)
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)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.25 No.1
Organisational & Social Dynamics (O&SD) aims to create a deeper understanding of organisational and social processes and their effects on individuals, and to provide a forum for both theoretical and... (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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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)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.22 No.1
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– The American Adam – caught between the myth of innocence and the guilt of perpetration by Beate West-Leuer
DOI 10.33212/osd.v22n1.2022.1
– Suffering at meaning:... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (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)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.16 No.2
Contents:
A Triptych of Atrocity: Organising Atrocity, Managing and Administering Atrocity, and the Language of Atrocity
- Howard Stein and Seth Allcorn
Self and Non-Self:...
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Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.14 No.1
Contents:
Siblings and the Psychosocial
- Juliet Mitchell
What do Participants Learn at Group Relations Conferences?
- Tracy Wallach
Virtual Experiences in...
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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)
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)
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)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.14 No.2
Contents:
Authority Relations in Group Relations Conferences and in “Real Life” Group Relations Conferences - Danish Design I
- Ulla Charlotte Beck and Steen Visholm
Learning From Experience... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.10 No.2
Contents in this issue include articles by Junell Silver and Ruthellen Josselson; Hannah Piterman; Francesca Cardona; William Halton; Britta Hogberg; Jean Reed & Thomas N. Gilmore. (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.16 No.1
Contents:
The Shaman, the Therapist, and the Coach
- Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Storytelling: An Approach to Knowing Organisations and Their People
- Seth Allcorn...
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Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.10 No.1
Contents in this issue include articles by Richard Laughlin and Mannie Sher, Robert Hinshelwood, Enrico Pedriali, and Louisa Diana Brunner, Dorit Szykierski, Richard Morgan-Jones, David... (more)