Trauma and Organizations

This collection of new contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organizational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organizations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous. Among the organizations studied are hospitals and clinics for the care and treatment of the mentally ill and the intellectually disabled; prisons; international industrial and financial firms; trade unions; universities and institutes for training mental health professionals; and churches. Drawing from Freudian, Kleinian, Independent and Lacanian perspectives in psychoanalysis and from Foulkesian and Bionian perspectives in group analysis, the authors illustrate the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification, and elucidate the painful personifications of it. Of special interest are the transmission of psychotic anxieties and the traumatic enactments of them, especially when people are insensitive to the rights and obligations of organisational citizenship.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the Editor and Contributors	p. xi
Foreword: Earl Hopper, Editor of NILGA	p. xvii
Introduction: The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems	p. xxxi
Processes and Systems
A study in institutional change: the experience of trauma and the role of rumour in a case of paranoiagenesis	p. 3
Traumatogenic processes in a psychiatric hospital: unconscious destructiveness of leadership change	p. 23
Trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process	p. 45
Baked beans and mashed potato: the basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in organizations treating adolescents with eating disorders	p. 65
A study of trauma and scapegoating in the context of incohesion: an example from the oil industry	p. 89
The survival and development of a traumatized clinic for psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities	p. 111
Leaders and Leadership
Personal trauma and collective disorder: the example of organizational psychodynamics in psychiatry	p. 129
Disorganized responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatized organizations	p. 151
Trauma and leadership succession: congregational leadership transition in the context of socio-cultural change	p. 173
Leaders and groups in traumatized and traumatizing organizations: a matter of everyday survival	p. 195
Organizations in traumatized societies: the Israeli case	p. 215
Two perspectives on a trauma in a framing group: the systems-centred approach and the theory of incohesion	p. 233
Building individual resilience and organizational hardiness: addressing post-trauma worker's block	p. 255
Index	p. 277
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