ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS

CONTENTS

VOLUME 9 No 1

ARTICLES

Psychic Imprisonment and Its Release
within Organizations and Working
Relationships: OPUS Conference, London
21-22 November 2008
Gilles Amado

1

‘Pushing the Past Backward in Front of
Oneself’: A Socio-Analytic Perspective on
the Relatedness of Past, Present, and
Future in Contemporary Organizations
Burkard Sievers

21

The World Event: A New Design for the
Study of Intergroup Behaviour in Group
Relations Conferences
Mary B. McRae, Zachary Green and Bruce Irvine

43

The Influence of Society on the Psyche:
A Comparative Study of Adolescents in
Post-Communist and Western European
Democratic Societies
Catherine Schmidt and Elisha Davar

66

An Interview with Isabel Menzies Lyth
with a Conceptual Commentary
David Lawlor and Liz Webb

93

Soundings

Global Dynamics at the Dawn of 2009
Lionel F. Stapley and Chrissie Rickman

109

Speaking Out

Splits, Extrusion and Integration: The
Impact of 'Potential Space' for Group
Relations and Sponsoring Institutions
Mannie Sher

138

Book Review

The Perverse Organisation and its
Deadly Sins
Amy L. Fraher

155

Obituary

Honouring Karien van Lohuizen 1951-2008
Rose Redding Mersky and Burkard Sievers

158

Notes on Contributors 

161

ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS

Families, Emotions and Therapeutic Preschools: A Systems Perspective
C. Jama Adams

165

Potential Space and Maternal Authority in Organizations
M. Gerald Fromm

189

Dialogue in Impossible Situations ‘Besod Siach’: Organization for the Promotion of Dialogue Between Conflict Groups in Israeli Society
Ruth Duek

206

Accounts of Interventions

Organizational Reconfiguration in Health Care: A Life and Death Struggle
Anita Roges

225

Speaking Out

The Eric Miller Memorial Lecture 2009 The Beautiful Journey: Reflections on Group Relations
Wesley Carr

249

Book Review

When Work Takes Control
Reviewed by Richard Morgan-Jones

269

Notes on Contributors

274