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List of contents
About the Author -- Introduction -- Psychotherapy in the Public Sector -- Psychiatric social work and general practice -- Counselling and psychotherapy in primary healthcare: key professional issues -- Ethical issues for psychotherapists working in organisations -- Group Relations -- Splits, extrusion and integration: the impact of “potential space” for group relations and sponsoring institutions -- Group relations conferences: reviewing and exploring theory, design, role-taking, and application -- From groups to group relations: Bion’s contribution to the Tavistock–“Leicester” conferences -- Organisational Development and Change Consultancy -- In search of the “structure that reflects”: promoting organisational reflection practices in a UK health authority -- Hopes, fears, and reality in a merger of two charities -- Boardroom Evaluation -- Corruption: aberration or an inevitable part of the human condition? Insights from a “Tavistock” approach -- Psychological and behavioural elements in board performance -- Inside the minds of the money minders: deciphering reflections on money, behaviour, and leadership in the financial crisis of 2007–2010 *
About the author
Mannie Sher is Director of the Group Relations Programme and Principal Researcher & Consultant and Executive Coach at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a Fellow of the British Association of Psychotherapists and board member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO). He is a member of the Israel Association for the Study of Group and Organisational Processes (OFEK) and a co-founder of the Belgirate conference on group relations conferences.
Summary
This book focuses on the hallmark or approaches of the Tavistock Institute—combining research in the social sciences with professional practice in organisational and social change. It shows how consultant and client system are partners in the process of organisational analysis and design.
