61st Annual Conference
Friday,
February, 27
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M.
– 1:30 P.M.
Workshop P 59
Hope and Despair in Traumatized Organizations
Chairs:
Susan Gantt,
Ph.D., CGP,
Assistant Professor, Emory University
School of
Medicine,
Atlanta, Georgia
Earl Hopper,
Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, London, England
Howard Kibel,
M.D., CGP, DFAGPA,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York
Medical
College, Valhalla, New York
Jeffrey
Kleinberg,
Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Past President,
Eastern Group
Psychotherapy
Association, New York, New York
Christer
Sandahl, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology,
Karolinska
Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden
Gerda Winther,
M.A.,
Private Practice, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group analysts
will describe and theorize traumatogenic processes within
organizations unable to meet challenges from their environment and
whose leaders have failed to satisfy the expectations of their
members. Attention will be given to basic assumption processes and
their personifications, and work groups associated with trust, hope,
and respect.
didactic-sharing of work
experiences-experiential-demonstration
Course References:
1. Kernberg, O. (1998).
Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups
and Organizations. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press.
2. Obholzer, A. and Roberts, V. (eds). (1994).
The Unconscious at Work: Individual and
Organizational Stress in the Human Services. London and New York:
Routledge.
3. Scheidlinger, S. (1968). The concept of regression in group
psychotherapy. International Journal
of Group Psychotherapy, 18, 3-20. |
