{"product_id":"psychodynamics-for-consultants-and-managers-isbn-9780470779316","title":"Psychodynamics for Consultants and Managers","description":"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 managers with an understanding of unconscious and non-conscious behaviour in order for them to create the appropriate conditions for change in organizations. It explains psychodynamic concepts and working principles in an accessible language and clearly describes their use in consulting and management practices using case studies. Case studies and examples are included throughout, and a glossary is provided.  About the Authors.  \u003cp\u003eContributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Groups and Organisations\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Original, Primary Mental Processes (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStepwise transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Languages from Another World (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe language of images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe language of actions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe language of relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePutting the information from 'atlantis' to use.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Supportive 'Process Structures' (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHolding and containment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransitional phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Defensive Processes and Behaviour (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert and Leopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual defence mechanisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefence mechanisms in groups.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial defences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial repression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefensive strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking with and through defences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Capacity for Creative Living and Its Importance in Organisational Life (\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins and functioning of the capacity for creative living.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDestructiveness in the context of creative living.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: A Psychodynamic Approach.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Leopold Vansina).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Psychodynamics: A Field of Study and an Approach (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome major differences with psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn attempt to define psychodynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating supportive process structures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmall things that matter: a look at some neglected potential benefits of a psychodynamic approach to organisational issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinalising comments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: 'Me' in the Problem Situation (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem with problem definition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding continuation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Me' in terminating a project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat about transference and counter-transference in our practice?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Groups as the Tip of an Iceberg: Locating Issues in Their Context (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManagement teams as the tip of an iceberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe iceberg in project teams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImport and export mechanism of problems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Being in and Working with Experiences in the 'Here-and-Now' (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarious mental modes of being present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe relevance of working with or without specific frames in the 'here-and-now'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom interpretations to sense making.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: The Art of Reviewing: A Cornerstone in Organisational Learning (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReviewing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat could be reviewed?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen to review and with what frequency?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecial or institutionalised reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to review?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConditions for reviewing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role and stance of the person(s) leading the review.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimits to learning from reviewing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: The Psychodynamic Approach in Consulting and Action-Research Projects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Understanding and Working with Organisational Dynamics: Coping with Organisational Growth (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina and Gilles Amado\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: Creating Awareness and a Base for Action within the Organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pilot workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe third workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe relevance of the design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Working Through the Draft Blueprint.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe six two-day workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding and working with organisational dynamics: discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Transformations: Hope, Illusions and Reality. Transformations within a Family-Owned International Corporation (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina and Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: The Consulting Project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe actors within the system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Minimal structures' and 'time and space'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Making Sense of the Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat can be learned from the consulting experience and conceptual clarifications for advancing the practices of organisation consultants and managers?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Participative Redesign: Action-Research into the Strategic Restructuring of a Plant (\u003ci\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: The Project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy role, approach and intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase one: exploring the company in its environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase two: engaging the employees to redesign the operations to meet the new production strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase three: change in ownership and implementation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Organisational Results and Research Findings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResults from the participative redesign.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe process of successful organisational change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning from the action-research itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Working Across Organisational Boundaries: Understanding and Working with Intergroup Dynamics (\u003ci\u003eSandra G.L. Schruijer and Leopold Vansina\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: The Psychological Difficulties of Working Across Organisational Boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe meaning of collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe yacht club.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Helping Groups and Organisations in Developing Successful Collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShellfisheries: conflicts of interest between nature and economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollaboration in the building sector.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganisational change of a nursing home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedical call centre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3: Dynamics, Practices and Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking with the whole system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking with the psychodynamics of conflict and collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeading collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring the 'why?'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcluding remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Vansina and Vansina-Cobbaert (and the two other contributors, Gilles Amado and Sandra Schruijer, who co-author one chapter each in the more \"empirical\" third part of the book) make a quite good point on why even people who do not hold a great belief in psychoanalysis and the subconscious processes among people - those that either hinder, or even can be made to help, change and learning in organizations - should understand these processes and learn to read them.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal or Workplace Learning\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLeopold Vansina\u003c\/b\u003e is an organizational consultant and a part time professor at the Universities of Leuven and Louvain-le-Neuve in Belgium. His experiences in group dynamics (N.T.L. Institute, U.S.A. and the Tavistock Institute, UK) and his training in psychoanalysis became an integrated part of his consulting practice in organizations all over the world. He is a member of the International Association of Psychology, The Academy of Management, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, and the Tavistock Institute Association. He has published numerous journal articles and is co-author (with Gilles Amado) of \u003ci\u003eThe Transitional Approach in Action\u003c\/i\u003e published by Karnac books in 2004.  \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert\u003c\/b\u003e is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003ePsychodynamics for Consultants and Managers\u003c\/i\u003e offers an introduction to the psychodynamic approach and guidance on how to implement it in dealing with organisational issues, change and development.  \u003cp\u003eThe book introduces the basic work principles of psychoanalysis on which the psychodynamic approach is largely based. Subsequently, the psychodynamic approach is explored in its four major dimensions: an evolving body of knowledge, a perspective for looking at social systems, a way of inquiry and a way of taking action. Three kinds of actions are identified and explored for leading meaningful change:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eCreating conditions to enable healthy mental processes to take their course\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe introduction of methods and techniques that facilitate task accomplishment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCreating conditions that change the dynamics of the work system itself in a more sustainable way.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe critical issues of problem definition, locating causal factors and being personally involved are discussed along with strategies for dealing with them. Practical case examples bring key notions and principles to life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIts jargon-free style means this book is accessible to people without any previous training in psychoanalytic work. It is a unique guide for consultants and managers who are interested in increasing the depth and effectiveness of their ways of dealing with organisational issues, change and development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989883896037,"sku":"NP9780470779316","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470779316.jpg?v=1761785785","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/psychodynamics-for-consultants-and-managers-isbn-9780470779316","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}