The Psychoanalytic Approach to Institutional Life: Why So Little Impact?
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Group Analysis
- Vol. 28 (1) , 33-45
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316495281003
Abstract
The paper reviews and reflects on the development of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding institutions. It traces the origins of such an approach from the early work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations after the Second World War; comments on the resistances such an approach has aroused, both internal and external; and suggests grounds for optimism regarding its future.Keywords
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