In their forthcoming book, Psychoanalytic Insights into Social, Political, and Organizational Dynamics: Understanding the Age of Trump, Seth Allcorn and Howard Stein offer psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States.
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Trauma and organizations
This recent book highlights the challenges in consulting to "traumatized organizations" - a state arising from "failed dependency" in the organizational setting. In the introduction, editor Earl Hopper suggests that "consultations to traumatized organizations are always disturbing to the consultant" (p. xxii) making countertransference an important aspect of data generation and analysis. The book is instructive for organizational researchers who negotiate similar dynamics in the doing of embedded or immersive research. The book features contributions from an international group of analysts and consultants who draw from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. Each chapter focuses on a dimension of organizational life in an organizational setting (e.g. behavioral health, correctional, corporate, academic) characterized by traumatic experience.