Front Matter -- General Introduction / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Groups and Organisations. Introduction / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- Original, Primary Mental Processes / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- Languages from Another World / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- Supportive ₁Process Structures₂ / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- Defensive Processes and Behaviour / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert, Leopold Vansina -- The Capacity for Creative Living and Its Importance in Organisational Life / Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- A Psychodynamic Approach. Introduction / Leopold Vansina -- Psychodynamics: A Field of Study and an Approach / Leopold Vansina -- ₁Me₂ in the Problem Situation / Leopold Vansina -- Groups as the Tip of an Iceberg: Locating Issues in Their Context / Leopold Vansina -- Being in and Working with Experiences in the ₁Here-and-Now₂ / Leopold Vansina -- The Art of Reviewing: A Cornerstone in Organisational Learning / Leopold Vansina -- The Psychodynamic Approach in Consulting and Action-Research Projects. Introduction / Leopold Vansina -- Understanding and Working with Organisational Dynamics: Coping with Organisational Growth / Leopold Vansina, Gilles Amado -- Transformation: Hope, Illusions and Reality. Transformations within a Family-Owned International Corporation / Leopold Vansina, Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert -- Participative Redesign: Action-Research into the Strategic Restructuring of a Plant / Leopold Vansina -- Working across Organisational Boundaries: Understanding and Working with Intergroup Dynamics / Sandra GL Schruijer, Leopold Vansina -- Glossary -- Index -- Dedication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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