The Psychodynamics of Organizations Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	The Person and the Organization
1	The Managerial Couple: Superior-Subordinate Relationships as a Unit of Analysis	3
2	Mourning, Potency, and Power in Management	19
3	Organizational Politics Against Organizational Culture: A Psychoanalytic Perspective	33
4	Contemporary Perspectives on Personal and Organizational Authority: The Self in a System of Work Relationships	49
Pt. II	The Case Studies
5	Professionals, Authority, and Group Life: A Case Study of a Law Firm	67
6	How Organizational Culture Can Affect Innovation	85
7	Group Self-Esteem and Group Performance	99
8	The Psychodynamics of a Cultural Change: Learnings from a Factory	119
9	The Psychodynamics of Safety: A Case Study of an Oil Refinery	143
10	The Assumptions of Ordinariness as a Denial Mechanism: Innovation and Conflict in a Coal Mine	165
Pt. III	Culture, Politics, and Race: Organizational Psychodynamics in Context
11	The Mythological Structure of Organizations and Its Impact	179
12	Mentoring and Irrationality: The Role of Racial Taboos	191
13	Alexithymia in Organizational Life: The Organization Man Revisited	203
14	Bureaucracy as Externalized Self-System: A View from the Psychological Interior	219
15	On the Psychodynamics of Organizational Totalitarianism	237
	About the Contributors	253
	Index	257