Main description:

Featuring contributions from a range of organizational contexts, Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations identifies the key features to group analytic practice as well as how different theoretical orientations, such as Systemic and Tavistock Consultancy approaches, can be incorporated into the process.

The book addresses two essential features of group analysis: the exploration of unconscious dynamics in groups, and the shifts of observational attention between the group as a whole, the individual in the group, and the group in the individual. Including perspectives from both organizational consultancy and reflective practice, chapters feature analysis with groups and subgroups in a range of settings, including a forensic psychiatric hospital, a children's hospice, an Anglican religious community and the management team of a global organization.

Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations is a major contribution to the developing literature on group analysis. It will be of great interest to psychotherapists, organizational consultants, facilitators of reflective practice groups, coaches, trainees in these disciplines, and any professionals who work with staff, teams, and organizations.

Contents:

Series Editor's Preface

About the Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Part I

Chapter 1

Tavistock Consultancy Approaches, Systemic Practice, and the Group Analytic Approach in Work with Staff, Staff Teams, and Organizations

Introduction

Tavistock Approaches to Consulting with Teams and OrganizationsRichard Morgan-Jones

Systemic Practice to Work with Staff, Teams, and OrganizationsMartin Miksits

A Group Analytic Approach to Work with Staff Teams and Organizations: A Contextual FrameworkChristine Oliver

Commentary on Systemic, Tavistock, and Group Analytic ApproachesChristine Oliver

Chapter 2

Tavistock Consultancy, Systems Centred, and Group Analytic Perspectives on a Community Meeting on an Acute Psychiatric Ward

Introduction

Ward observation

Commentary I

Tavistock Consultancy PerspectiveJulian Lousada

Commentary II

Systems-Centered (R) Consultancy PerspectiveRay Haddock

Commentary III

A Group Analytic PerspectiveDavid Kennard

Part IIChapter 3

"How did you get here from there?": Psychosis, Stigma, and the Counter TransferenceDavid Vincent

Chapter 4

Working Between Worlds of ExperiencePeter Wilson

Chapter 5

What Makes a Staff Support Group (Un)safeDavid Kennard

Chapter 6

Consulting to Doctors in General Practice: "Don't talk to me about work" Cynthia Rogers

Chapter 7

Reflective Practice Groups - A Hall of MirrorsSue Einhorn

Chapter 8

Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Reflective Practice in Anxious TimesIan Simpson

Chapter 9

Resistance to Reflective Practice - an Anti-Group PerspectiveMorris NitsunChapter 10

Discovering the Unconscious Patterns of a National Culture through a Large Group of Psychotherapists and Group Analysts in Finland: An Application of Group Analysis in an Organizational ContextGerhard Wilke

Part III

CHAPTER 11

The Group as a Whole, the Individual in the Group, and the Group in the IndividualAleksandra Novakovic