Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 17 Issue 5

Managing in a psychoanalytically informed manner

Adrian Carr

Introduces Freud’s discovery of an active unconscious as at the heart of many psychodynamic processes. Also introduces the papers in this special issue.

Organizations, management and psychoanalysis: an overview

Yiannis Gabriel, Adrian Carr

An overview is presented of some basic psychoanalytic insights into organisations that collectively reinforce the reasons why management studies should concern itself with…

Analysis of a successful consultative effort from four psychoanalytic perspectives

William Czander, Lawrence Jacobsberg, Rose Redding Mersky, Henry Nunberg

Four psychoanalytic consultants, each utilizing one the most prevalent theoretical orientations used in the field of psychoanalytic consulting are asked to explain why a…

Psychoanalytic diagnosis of top management team dysfunction

Jim Paul, Christy A. Strbiak, Nancy E. Landrum

This article presents a psychoanalytically informed diagnosis of top management team (TMT) dysfunction during TMT training in a public sector organization. Outdoor management…

Service organisations: issues in transition and anxiety containment

Kim James, Graham Clark

In reviewing their service offering, organisations may decide standardised services need to be more flexible whilst exclusive or customised services need to adopt a more…

Organisational defences revisited: systems and contexts

Paula Hyde, Alan B. Thomas

It has been suggested that localised attempts at change may fail because of organisational defences that are sustained through bureaucratic systems. Mental health workers face…

Gendering the silences: psychoanalysis, gender and organization studies

Leroy Lowe, Albert Mills, Jane Mullen

By the very nature of its concerns (i.e. a search for deep‐seated meanings within our understandings of organizations and the people who enact them), psychoanalysis has much to…