The Psyche at Work

How does the corporate world, heavily invested in patriarchal values, confront these changing times, in which other values are challenging long-held assumptions about power and structure? How can organizations acknowledge their unconscious and do something about it? What are their creative sources? What are the possibilities for transformation in the structures of traditional organizations, and how will such changes affect labor and management? The essays in this volume suggest that the theories and insights elaborated originally within the context of Jungian analysis and practice can address these kinds of questions in fruitful and creative ways. Murray Stein - Organizational Life as Spiritual Practice John Hollwilz - Individuation at Work: Considerations for Prediction and Evaluation Richard Auger and Pauline Arneberg - Analytical Psychology and Organizational Development at Work Cathaleene J. Macias and Gregory J. Santos - The Role of Evaluator as Program Analyst: Parallels Between Evaluation and Jungian Analysis Georgia Lepper - The Complex in Human Affairs Arthur D. Colman - Depth Consultation Kaj Noschis Dealing with an Organization's Shadow Aspects Mia Nijsmans - A Dionysian Way to Organizational Effectiveness Edwin E. Olson - Opening to the Change Process: The Transcendent Function at Work Medora S. Perlman - Toward a Theory of the Self in the Group Randal E. Ruppart and Aryeh Maidenbaum - Psychological Types, Job Change, and Personal Growth June Singer - Jung's Typology in the Workplace The organization we work for has a psyche of its own, a "collective personality" and an organizational imagination, which goes to work on us, for better or for worse. In this volume, the work of analytical psychologists, organizational development consultants, and group relations theorists reflect on the contemporary enigma presiding over an organization’s unconscious. Insights form a Jungian perspective on power structures, personal relations, organizational problems and business-building in the workplace. Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.