Organisations, Anxiety and Defence

Omtale

Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups,organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been manydifferent approaches. This book brings together the contributions to afield which could be called "psychoanalytic social psychology", from a verywide-ranging group of authors. The substantial introductory Chapters bythe Editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on socialgroups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eightChapters from eminent authors on the topic, writing in Europe, the Americasand Britain.