Managing Psychodynamic Processes Inside an Organization

Bernd Huppertz is an independent scholar.

• Introduction Part I: Development of the Organization and of Its Field of Emotional Experiences1. Organization: A Short Historical Overview of the Development of Organizations2. Organizations in the Modern Sense: For-Profit Organizations, Institutions, Administrations, and Not-For-Profit Organizations3. Unconscious Processes and Nonverbal Communications in OrganizationsPart II: Advantages and Disadvantages of Organizations4. Barriers and Enablers to Organizational Innovation5. The Individual in Complicated Situations and Organizations: Acute and Chronic Stress and Psychosomatic Diseases as a Result of Anxieties and ConflictsPart III: Specific Helpful Methods and Tools for Assisting Organizations in Dealing with Mental Processes Within an Organization6. An Observation Research Method7. Organizational Development8. Organizational Diagnosis9. For the Organization: Consulting and Helping to Make Psychological Processes Clearer10. For the Manager: Coaching and Consulting, Helping to Identify and Manage Psychological Processes11. For the Team or Group: Help to Recognize and Manage Group Processes12. For the Individual in General: Mentalization, Communication, and Emotional Intelligence (Help to Recognize and Understand Mental States)Part IV: A Systems Psychodynamic Institution at Work13. Walking the Talk: Leading and Managing in a Systems Psychodynamic Education Institute—Managing the Psychic Life of the OrganizationPart V: A Variety of Methods for the Identification and Management of Psychic Life in Organizations14. Leadership and Group Relation Conferences: Has Anything Really Changed Since Pope Boniface VIII’s 1302 Unam Sanctam?—Does This Early Act of Globalization Have Repercussions for Contemporary Leadership and Systems of Organization?15. Different Types of Observation of Organizations16. The Identification and Management of Psychic Life in Organizations: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Identifying and Managing the Psychic Life in Organizations (Promoting Healthier Dynamics and More Effective Leadership)Part VI: The Outlook17. Are You in My Tribe?: Understanding global, regional, local, or community conflict, anxiety, and prejudice through a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic and large group identity lensPart VII: EpilogueEpilogue