Insight and Imagination

Howard F. Stein, Ph.D., a psychoanalytic anthropologist, organizational consultant, and poet, is Professor of Family Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he has taught for thirty years. He is a long-time member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. Professor Stein is author of twenty-five books, the most recent of which is Beneath the Crust of Culture (2005). In late 2006, he was nominated for Oklahoma Poet Laureate.

• Part 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Countertransference and Organizational Knowing: Understanding from the Inside as Well as the OutsideChapter 4 "The Centre and Circumference of Knowledge:" The Use of Poetry as a Tool of Countertransference in Organizational Knowing and ConsultingChapter 5 Uncovering an Organizational Conference's Hidden AgendasChapter 6 Red Herrings in the Workplace: On Not Solving the Wrong ProblemChapter 7 Learning How to Help: An Applied Anthropologist's Role in Massive Organizational ChangeChapter 8 The Role of our Words in the Masking and Unmasking of Organizational ExperienceChapter 9 Trusting the Journey: The Narrative History of an Organizational ConsultationChapter 10 Letting Go of Who We Were: The Triad of Change-Loss-Grief in Organizational and Wider Cultural LifeChapter 11 The Dangers of Not Reflecting on What We Are Doing in WorkplacesChapter 12 The Inner World of Workplaces: Learning about Real World Workplaces through ArtChapter 13 Ways of Knowing in Medicine and Other Worlds of Work: Objectivized Seeing and BeyondChapter 14 The Consultant's Story as Conduit to the Client and Organization's Story: Fiction as Guide to Organizational RealityChapter 15 Summary, Conclusions: A Documentary Play

Stein in Insight and Imagination intersperses his thoughtful and reflective discussion of the psychological nature of the workplace with poems...this much needed, playful but yet intensely thoughtful book makes an important contribution to the discussion of knowing and not knowing of the workplace for what it is...I recommend this book to anyone seeking to more thoroughly understand one's experiences at work.