The body of the organisation and its health / Richard Morgan-Jones ; additional material by Nuno Torres and Kevin Dixon ; foreword by Olya Khaleelee.

Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis, group relations, systemic organisational observation, consulting and research, this book explores the relationship between the health of the work force and the health of organisations. It seeks to do this through an exploration of experience that has three dim...

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Main Author: Morgan-Jones, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foundation stones to keep body and soul together
  • part 1. The body of the organisation and its health ; Birth of the body, birth of the mind, birth of the social ; Protomentality ; Group body, group skin
  • part 2. Socio-somatics : social and work place ailments and their cures ; "Retainment" of staff : towards a collective work ethic in managing presence and absence ; Social stress-related epidemic diseases : failures in emotional containment ; Management of the risk of recycling trauma ; Shameless violations : can restorative justice meet the cause? ; Financial bodies called to account : corporate risks of carrying fear and greed on behalf of the body politic ; From psycho-somatics to socio-somatics : health risks to individual and organisational bodies in the psychotherapy profession ; Embodying the human spirit : tragedy, tribute, and bequest.