{"product_id":"the-unconscious-at-work-9780815361350","title":"The Unconscious at Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unconscious at Work\u003c\/em\u003e, Second Edition\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003edraws on a body of thinking and practice which has developed over the past 70 years, often referred to as ''the Tavistock approach'' or ''systems-psychodynamics''. All the contributors are practising consultants who draw on this framework, bringing it alive and making it useful to any reader  manager, leader or consultant, regardless of whether they have any prior familiarity with the underlying concepts  who is curious about what might be driving the puzzling or stressful situations they find in their workplace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Edition was addressed to people working in ''the human services'': health, social care and education. Since it was published in 1994, there has been growing interest in the business world, and in understanding more \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Setting out the basis for the understanding of work in human service organizations, the publication of the original ‘Unconscious at Work’ in 1994 was a landmark event in the field. In this excellent, updated volume, Anton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts have extended the scope of the book to the corporate sector and have produced a volume of outstanding quality. Drawing on a range of experts who take a psychoanalytic view, this volume comprises a series of superb chapters on a wide range of topics. I cannot recommend it too highly.\"-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Stein\u003c\/b\u003e, Chair in Leadership and Management, School of Business, University of Leicester, UK \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An invaluable book in developing my leadership of complex organizations and systems. The book really helped me to build my understanding of the impact of the nature of work and context on people’s performance. The book also enhanced my understanding of how basic human experience outside of work define people and teams’ reactions to leaders and each other. The research and examples across a range of settings and sectors really help you build change and performance improvement programmes which will have a lasting positive impact.\"-\u003cb\u003eFiona Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e, CEO Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust, UK \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We have used this classic and exceptional text to inform the design and delivery of our programmes with managers and leaders in health and social care. It is essential that public service leaders recognize powerful emotional states and work with them. A 2ndedition of this book is timely as organizations struggle to cope, adapt and thrive in complex, ambiguous and uncertain contexts. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about unconscious processes at work and how understanding these can enhance awareness, effectiveness and performance.\"\u003cb\u003eAnn Mahon\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Health Leadership, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for the first edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Unconscious at Work\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What makes this book excellent? ...the writing is direct and clear, presenting complex subjects effectively. The abundance of examples is accompanied by intellectual rigor... highly recommended to workers, managers, students and teachers in the human services.\"-\u003ci\u003eProfessional Social Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a reminder of the processes that can bring individual work, teams and corporate planning to a grinding halt this book is invaluable.\"-\u003ci\u003eProbation Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Jonathan Gosling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note on confidentiality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note about ‘a Tavistock approach’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Making sense of organizations – the institutional roots of the Tavistock approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Mosse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConceptual framework\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Some unconscious aspects of organizational life: contributions from psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Halton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The dangers of contagion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeirdre Moylan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The unconscious at work in groups and teams: contributions from the work of Wilfred Bion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Stokes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The organization of work: contributions from open systems theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Authority, power and leadership: contributions from group relations training\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnton Obholzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Changing the stories we are ‘in’: power, purpose and organization-in-the-mind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unconscious at work in human service organizations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IIa Working with people in distress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Attending to emotional issues on a special care baby unit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Cohn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Containing anxiety in work with damaged children\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Mawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Fragmentation and integration in a school for children with physical disabilities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnton Obholzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Where angels fear to tread: idealism, despondency and inhibition of thought in hospital nursing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Dartington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Till death us do part: caring and uncaring in work with older people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Working with dying people: on being good enough\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeter Speck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IIb Challenges, crises and change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 The self-assigned impossible task\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Institutional chaos and personal stress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Stokes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 The troublesome individual and the troubled institution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Finding a voice: differentiation, representation and empowerment in organizations under threat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Mosse and Vega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Confl ict and collaboration: managing intergroup relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Managing social anxieties in public sector organizations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnton Obholzer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unconscious at work in business organizations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKay Trainor (guest editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19 Family patterns at work: how casting light on the shadows of the past can enhance leadership in the present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesca Cardona and Sheila Damon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 Feelings as data\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKay Trainor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 The myth of rationality: why change efforts so often fail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Krantz and Kay Trainor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 Navigating roles in complex systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVega Zagier Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 Beyond the individual: reframing blame and responsibility for ‘rogue’ behaviour in the fi nancial services industry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAjit Menon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24 From managing to leading organizations in their contexts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthieu Daum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Consulting to oneself \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: The genealogy of systems psychodynamics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018469212503,"sku":"9780815361350","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815361350.jpg?v=1750777008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unconscious-at-work-9780815361350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}