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This book explores these work-life dynamics by grounding them in concrete examples and then using complementary psychoanalytically informed perspectives to illuminate their underlying, often unconscious nature filling an important gap in management and organizational literature.

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This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores US politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States.

This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores US politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States.

Presents an in-depth examination of the effects that the popular approaches to management organisational change - downsizing, restructuring and re-engineering - had on a major American hospital. This study discusses the nature of organisational change and its effects on the employees.

Provides the first comprehensive model for understanding the psychologically defensive workplace, and a way for corporate management to alleviate its symptoms.

Examines the paradox of human nature that places individuals of distinction in the position of being rejected and ostracized by their peers, exploring the psychological underpinnings of this phenomenon and suggesting ways of revising organizational culture to foster individual excellence.

The complexity and dynamism of organizations make them difficult to understand and manage. This book presents the workings and designs of organizations and identifies the types of problems encountered by organizational workers. Allcorn provides an essential focus on dynamic workplace theory, questioning the current and future value of today's bureaucratic, hierarchic organizational structure.

There's more to work and the life of the organization than just numbers. In his new book on how people function in work settings, Allcorn calls it the human spirit. It too contributes to the life and performance of organizations, but life itself it can die--or be killed. Allcorn argues that changes in how organizations are managed--downsizing, rightsizing, reengineering, and other catastrophic means--can have an unintended but devastating resu...

Codependency is an important psychological aspect of the workplace that adversely affects both those who experience codependency and those who are the subject of the codependent's compelling agenda of interpersonal control. In this important book, Seth Allcorn explores codependency in the workplace beginning with its origins in the family. Many new insights are provided about the characteristic self-defeating and paradoxical patterns of thinki...

This text explores what it means to feel angry at work. Anxiety creates a biological and psychological readiness to act that is guided by whether it is acceptable to feel angry at work. Managing the development of anger and its expression in the workplace is part of designing a better workplace.

Explores an aspect of organisational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organisational dynamics. Allcorn and Stein utilize a psychoanalytically informed perspective to help readers understand why a leader, colleague, or friend behaves in ways that are destructive to others and the organisation.