Lost in familiar places : creating new connections between the individual and society
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Lost in familiar places : creating new connections between the individual and society
Yale University Press, c1991
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780300049473
Description
In this world of change, individuals feel increasingly lost - within families and in workplaces - and unsure of the roles required of them. In this book a psychoanalyst and an Anglican priest, using a combination of psychoanalysis and social systems theory, offer suggestions to help people regain their bearings. The authors begin by discussing how life prepares the individual to participate in groups through the family before turning their attention to the larger organizations in which we work and participate. All the people within a group have their own subjectively felt perceptions of the environment. According to Shapiro and Carr, when individuals can negotiate a shared interpretation of the experience and of the purposes for which the group exists, they can further their development and that of the organizations. The authors suggest how this can be accomplished and conclude with some broad speculations about the continuing importance of institutions for connecting the individual and society.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Learning from the family: listening to human experience
- living in the first organization
- containing chaotic experience
- interpreting from within. Part 2 Moving to organizations: from the family to larger organizations
- the interpretive stance
- an organizational illustration. Part 3 Applying the interpretive stance: a consultation to a unit in a mental hospital
- coping with unbearable feelings
- the units use of the interpretive stance
- values and beliefs within a law firm. Part 4 Developing wider interpretations: organizations as symbols - a study of the Church
- irrationality and dependency - a method survival
- society, institutions, and the individual
- final reflections.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780300057874
Description
We live in a world of accelerating change, marked by the decline of traditional forms of family, community, and professional life. Both within families and in work-places individuals feel increasingly lost, unsure of the roles required of them. In this book a psychoanalyst and an Anglican priest, using a combination of psychoanalysis and social systems theory, offer tools that allow people to create meaningful connections with one another and with the institutions within which they work and live.
The authors begin by discussing how life in a family prefigures and prepares the individual to participate in groups, offering detailed case studies of families in therapy as illustrations. They then turn to organizations, describing how their consultations with an academic conference, a mental hospital, a law firm, and a church parish helped members of these institutions to relate to one another by becoming aware of wider contexts for their experiences. All the people within a group have their own subjectively felt perceptions of the environment. According to Shapiro and Carr, when individuals can negotiate a shared interpretation of the experience and of the purposes for which the group exists, they can further their own development and that of their organizations. The authors suggest how this can be accomplished. They conclude with some broad speculations about the continuing importance of institutions for connecting the individual and society.
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