Trauma and Organizations

Hopper, Earl

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Processes and Systems -- A study in institutional change: the experience of trauma and the role of rumour in a case of paranoiagenesis -- Traumatogenic processes in a psychiatric hospital: unconscious destructiveness of leadership change -- Trauma as cause and effect of perverse organizational process -- Baked beans and mashed potato: the basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in organizations treating adolescents with eating disorders -- A study of trauma and scapegoating in the context of incohesion: an example from the oil industry -- The survival and development of a traumatized clinic for psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities -- Leaders and Leadership -- Personal trauma and collective disorder: the example of organizational psychodynamics in psychiatry -- Disorganized responses to refusal and spoiling in traumatized organizations -- Trauma and leadership succession: congregational leadership transition in the context of socio-cultural change -- Leaders and groups in traumatized and traumatizing organizations: a matter of everyday survival -- Organizations in traumatized societies: the Israeli case* -- Two perspectives on a trauma in a training group: the systems-centred approach and the theory of incohesion -- Building individual resilience and organizational hardiness: addressing post-trauma worker's block*