The Body of the Organisation and Its Health

by Morgan-Jones, Richard; Torres, Nuno (CON); Dixon, Kevin (CON); Khaleelee, Olya

• ISBN13: 9781855757769
• ISBN10: 1855757761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-31
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis, group relations, systemic organizational observation, consulting and research, this book explores the relationship between the health of the work force and the health of organizations. It seeks to do this through an exploration of experience that has three dimensions linked in a single matrix: the bodily, the emotional and the social. This exploration is inspired by Bion's original idea of the protomental matrix from which the group dynamics of basic assumption mentality are derived, leading to his initial ideas about group diseases and their cures.

Author Biography

Richard Morgan-Jones is an organisational consultant and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a practice in Eastbourne, UK. He directs Work Force Health: Consulting and Research. His original education was at Cambridge, Oxford and Exeter Universities in Anthropology, Theology and Education. He worked at the National Institute for Social Work in London 1980-1992 as a consultant and trainer where he developed a course in consulting skills.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Contributors	p. xix
Introduction: Foundation stones to keep body and soul together	p. xxiii
	p. 1
The body of the organisation and its health	p. 3
Birth of the body, birth of the mind, birth of the social	p. 29
Protomentality	p. 53
Group body, group skin	p. 81
	p. 95
Introduction: Socio-somatics: Social and work place ailments and their cures	p. 97
"Retainment" of staff: Towards a collective work ethic in managing presence and absence	p. 101
Social stress-related epidemic diseases: Failures in emotional containment	p. 129
Management of the risk of recycling trauma	p. 157
Shameless violations: Can restorative justice meet the case?	p. 179
Financial bodies called to account: Corporate risks of carrying fear and greed on behalf of the body politic	p. 199
From psycho-somatics to socio-somatics: Health risks to individual and organisational bodies in the psychotherapy profession	p. 223
Final Word: Embodying the human spirit-tragedy, tribute, and bequest	p. 243
References	p. 247
Index	p. 269
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