Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations

Featuring contributions from a range of organizational contexts, Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizationsidentifies the key features to group analytic practice as well as how different theoretical orientations, such as Systemic and Tavistock Consultancy approaches, can be incorporated into the process. The book addresses two essential features of group analysis: the exploration of unconscious dynamics in groups, and the shifts of observational attention between the group as a whole, the individual in the group, and the group in the individual. Including perspectives from both organizational consultancy and reflective practice, chapters feature analysis with groups and subgroups in a range of settings, including a forensic psychiatric hospital, a children’s hospice, an Anglican religious community and the management team of a global organization. Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations is a major contribution to the developing literature on group analysis. It will be of great interest to psychotherapists, organizational consultants, facilitators of reflective practice groups, coaches, trainees in these disciplines, and any professionals who work with staff, teams, and organizations.

Series Editor’s Preface About the Editors and Contributors Introduction Part I Chapter 1 Tavistock Consultancy Approaches, Systemic Practice, and the Group Analytic Approach in Work with Staff, Staff Teams, and Organizations Introduction Tavistock Approaches to Consulting with Teams and OrganizationsRichard Morgan-Jones Systemic Practice to Work with Staff, Teams, and OrganizationsMartin Miksits A Group Analytic Approach to Work with Staff Teams and Organizations: A Contextual FrameworkChristine Oliver Commentary on Systemic, Tavistock, and Group Analytic ApproachesChristine Oliver Chapter 2 Tavistock Consultancy, Systems Centred, and Group Analytic Perspectives on a Community Meeting on an Acute Psychiatric Ward Introduction Ward observation Commentary I Tavistock Consultancy PerspectiveJulian Lousada Commentary II Systems-Centered® Consultancy PerspectiveRay Haddock Commentary III A Group Analytic PerspectiveDavid Kennard Part IIChapter 3 "How did you get here from there?": Psychosis, Stigma, and the Counter TransferenceDavid Vincent Chapter 4 Working Between Worlds of ExperiencePeter Wilson Chapter 5 What Makes a Staff Support Group (Un)safeDavid Kennard Chapter 6 Consulting to Doctors in General Practice: "Don’t talk to me about work" Cynthia Rogers Chapter 7 Reflective Practice Groups – A Hall of MirrorsSue Einhorn Chapter 8 Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Reflective Practice in Anxious TimesIan Simpson Chapter 9 Resistance to Reflective Practice – an Anti-Group PerspectiveMorris NitsunChapter 10 Discovering the Unconscious Patterns of a National Culture through a Large Group of Psychotherapists and Group Analysts in Finland: An Application of Group Analysis in an Organizational ContextGerhard Wilke Part III CHAPTER 11 The Group as a Whole, the Individual in the Group, and the Group in the IndividualAleksandra Novakovic

Aleksandra Novakovic is a psychoanalyst and group analyst. She was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Adult Psychology Service, and Joint Head of the Inpatient & Community Psychology Service, Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust. She has worked at Tavistock Relationships and on the IGA Diploma Course in Reflective Practice in Organisations. Currently she teaches for the British Psychoanalytic Association and is a Consultant Visiting Lecturer and supervisor at Tavistock Relationships. She co-edited with David Bell a book on psychotic processes (Karnac, 2013), edited Couple Dynamics (Karnac, 2015), and co-edited Couple Stories with Marguerite Reid (Routledge, 2018). David Vincent trained as a group analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis, and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the British Association of Psychotherapists. He is an IPT therapist and supervisor, and worked for many years in the NHS, retiring as a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist from Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic. He has also worked for University College Hospital Drug Dependence Unit, MEDNET and Camden Psychotherapy Unit, and in private practice. He was Chair of the IGA from 2000–2005, and Chair of Ethics for the British Psychoanalytic Council from 2012–2016, and is now a retired member of the IGA and the BPF.