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Managing Psychodynamic Processes Inside an Organization

Development, Leadership, and Systems

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Managing Psychodynamic Processes Inside an Organization

Development, Leadership, and Systems

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Bernd Huppertz brings together psychologists in organizational psychology to examine and address the psychology components of organizations.

This book examines systems of psychodynamic institutions at work, the history of organizations, leadership and group relations, and how to promote healthier dynamics.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
By Anton Obholzer, Senior Faculty INSEAD French International Business School and Emeritus Chair and CEO of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Aim of the Book
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Introduction
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar


Part I: Development of the Organization and of Its Field of Emotional Influences and Experiences

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Concept of Organization and a Short Historical Overview of the Development of Organizations
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar
Chapter 2: Organizations in the Modern Sense: For-Profit Organizations, Institutions, Administrations, and Not-For-Profit Organizations
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar
Chapter 3: Unconscious Processes and Nonverbal Communications in Organizations
By R. D. Hinshelwood, professor emeritus, University of Essex

Part II: Advantages and Disadvantages of Organizations

Chapter 4: Barriers and Enablers to Organizational Innovation
By Susan Long, professor emeritus, PhD Co-Lead National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA), Editor-in-Chief Socioanalysis, Susan Long Consulting, and Fiona Martin, Nuala Dent, and John Gilbert, NIODA
Chapter 5: The Individual in Complicated Situations and Organizations and the Digital Transformation: Acute and Chronic Stress and Psychosomatic Diseases as a Result of Anxieties and Conflicts
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar

Part III: Helpful Methods and Tools for Assisting Organizations in Dealing with Mental Processes Within an Organization

Chapter 6: An Observation Research Method
By R. D. Hinshelwood, professor emeritus, University of Essex
Chapter 7: Organizational Development
By Mannie Sher and David Lawlor, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Chapter 8: Organizational Diagnosis
By Mannie Sher and David Lawlor, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Chapter 9: For the Organization: Consulting (Helping to Make Psychological Processes Clearer)
By David Lawlor and Mannie Sher, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Chapter 10: When Managers Coach
By Coreene Archer, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Chapter 11: For the Team or Group: Help to Recognize and Manage Group Processes
By Mannie Sher and David Lawlor, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Chapter 12: For the Individual in General: Emotional Intelligence, Mentalization, and Communication (Recognizing and Understanding Mental States)
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar

Part IV: Methods for the Identification and Management of Psychic Life in Organizations

Chapter 13: Leadership and Group Relation Conferences: Has Anything Really Changed Since Pope Boniface VIII's 1302 Unam Sanctam?: Does This Early Act of Globalization Have Repercussions for Contemporary Leadership and Systems of Organization?
By Leslie B. Brissett, Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Eco-Leadership Institute
Chapter 14: Walking the Talk: Leading and Managing in a Systems Psychodynamic Education Institute: Managing the Psychic Life of the Organization
By Wendy Harding and Brigid Nossal, National Institute of Organisation Dynamics Australia (NIODA)

Chapter 15: Different Types of Observation of Organizations
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar

Epilogue
By Bernd Huppertz, private practice, independent scholar

Appendix

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 09 Jul 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 284
ISBN 9781666916584
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 12 tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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