
Trauma and Organizations
Earl Hopper(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-367-32938-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is concerned with the study of organizations of various kinds. It examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organizations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous and understanding the variations in individual, group, and organizations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-32938-9 (9780367329389)
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Person
Hopper, Earl
Content
Foreword -- Introduction -- Processes and Systems -- A study in institutional change: the experience of trauma and the role of rumour in a case of paranoiagenesis -- Traumatogenic processes in a psychiatric hospital: unconscious destructiveness of leadership change -- Trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process -- Baked beans and mashed potato: the basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in organizations treating adolescents with eating disorders -- A study of trauma and scapegoating in the context of incohesion: an example from the oil industry -- The survival and development of a traumatized clinic for psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities -- Leaders and Leadership -- Personal trauma and collective disorder: the example of organizational psychodynamics in psychiatry -- Disorganized responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatized organizations -- Trauma and leadership succession: congregational leadership transition in the context of socio-cultural change -- Leaders and groups in traumatized and traumatizing organizations: a matter of everyday survival -- Organizations in traumatized societies: the Israeli case* -- Two perspectives on a trauma in a training group: the systems-centred approach and the theory of incohesion -- Building individual resilience and organizational hardiness: addressing post-trauma worker's block*