Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
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- Publisher : Whurr Publishers
- Published : January 2001
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Organisational Psychology - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 13299
- ISBN 13 : 9781861562142
- ISBN 10 : 1861562144
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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', from a wide-ranging group of authors. It introduces the conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on social groups that have been formed internationally, including contributions from Europe, the Americas and Britain. 200 pages.
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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
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R.D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He had a long interest in alternative psychiatry and worked as a part-time Consultant Psychotherapist in the National Health Service whilst also running a private practice as a psychoanalyst for more than forty years. Subsequently he became professor in the Centre For Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University (now the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies), and is now Professor Emeritus. He has written widely on psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts, as well as comparative psychoanalytic research, the psychodynamics of institutions, and a number of political topics (that make up the contents of this current volume).
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