ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS

CONTENTS

VOLUME 7 No 1

ARTICLES

Xenophon and Psychoanalysis: Lessons in Management
John Gale

1

'Retainment' of Staff: The Challenge to the System in Managing the Presence or Absence of Staff for the Work Task.
The application of Bion's approach to group psycho-somatic phenomena

Richard Morgan-Jones

20

The Psychological Nature of Oppression in an American Workplace
Seth Allcorn

39

Soundings

Reflections on the Administrator's Role
Margaret Parish

61

Global Dynamics at the Dawn of 2007
Lionel F. Stapley and Christine Cave

73

Accounts of Interventions

Exploring the Contributions of a Systems-Psychodynamic Approach to Working in Organizations: An Inquiry into the Learning of the White Organization Program
Leslie Reed Shields, Bernard Gertler, and Fernande Faulkner

111

Reviews

On Freud's 'Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego', Ethel Spector Person (ed.), London, The Analytic Press, 2001.
John Bird

131

Individuals, Groups and Organisations Beneath the Surface: An Introduction, Lionel F. Stapley, Karnac, London, 2006.
Stanley Gold

134

Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, David Armstrong, edited by Robert French, London, Karnac, 2005.
Amy L. Fraher

138

Working across the gap. The prractice of social science in organisations, Lisl Klein, London, Karnac, 2005.
Stefan Jern

141

Notes on Contributors 

146

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VOLUME 7 No 2

Obituary

Erika Stern
Elisha Davar

151

ARTICLES

Race, Culture and Containment in the Formal and Informal Systems of Group Relations Conferences
Ellen L. Short

156

Psychoanalytical Aspects of Driving Behaviour: Role and Fantasy On the Road
Oren Kaplan, Silbia Silberman,
Rinat Alon and Yoram Galu

172

The Dynamics of Lateral Relations in
Changing Organizational Worlds

David Armstrong

193

Racial Dialogue Among Women:
A Group Relations Theory Analysis
Mary B. McRae, Agnes Kwong and Ellen L. Short

211

Subverting Utopias | Dangerous Dialogue:
Inquiry in Experiential Teaching and Learning
Margaret Page and Colston Sanger

234

Scientific Paper

Phases of System Development in Organizational Work Groups: The Systems-Centred Approach for Intervening in Context
Susan P. Gantt and Yvonne M. Agazarian

253

Accounts of Interventions

A Reflexive Action Inquiry into the Experience of Working Together as Consultants
Jane James and Mike Broussine

292

Book Review

Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming, W. Gordon Lawrence (ed.), London, Karnac, 2007.
Julian Manley

313

Notes on Contributors

320