Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Person and the Organization 1. The Managerial Couple: Superior-Subordinate Relationships as a Unit of Analysis -- James Krantz 2. Mourning, Potency, and Power in Management -- Laurent Lapierre 3. Organizational Politics Against Organizational Culture: A Psychoanalytic Perspective -- Howell S. Baum 4. Contemporary Perspectives on Personal and Organization Authority: The Self in a System of Work Relationships -- Laurence J. Gould Part II: Case Studies 5. Professionals, Authority, and Group Life: A Case Study of a Law Firm -- Larry Hirschhorn 6. How Organizational Culture Can Affect Innovation -- Steven P. Feldman 7. Group Self-Esteem and Group Performance -- Glenn Swogger, Jr. 8. The Psychodynamics of a Cultural Change: Learnings from a Factory -- Larry Hirschhorn and Thomas N. Gilmore 9. The Psychodynamics of Safety: A Case Study of an Oil Refinery -- Larry Hirschhorn and Donald R. Young 10. The Assumptions of Ordinariness as a Denial Mechanism: Innovation and Conflict in a Coal Mine -- Eric L. Trist Part III: Culture, Politics, and Race: Organizational Psychodynamics in Context 11. The Mythological Structure of Organizations and Its Impact -- Abraham Zaleznik 12. Mentoring and Irrationality: The Role of Racial Taboos -- David A. Thomas 13. Alexithymia in Organizational Life: The Organization Man Revisited -- Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries 14. Bureaucracy as Externalized Self-System: A View from the Psychological Interior -- Michael A. Diamond 15. On the Psychodynamics of Organizational Totalitarianism -- Howard S. Schwartz About the Contributors Index