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Observing organisations : anxiety, defence and culture in health care / edited by R.D. Hinshelwood and Wilhelm Skogstad ; with a foreword by Anton Obholzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health facilities--Administration--Psychological aspects.
- Health facilities.
- Health services administration--Psychological aspects.
- Health services administration.
- Health care teams--Psychological aspects.
- Health care teams.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides a psychonanalytically informed examination of the cultures that arise within health care organisations, and shows how findings can be used to overcome difficulties that arise,
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The dynamics of health care institutions; 2 The method of observing organisations; 3 Madness and morale: a chronic psychiatric ward; 4 Food for thought the canteen of a mental hospital; 5 At a crossroad between institutional and community psychiatry an acute psychiatric admission ward; 6 Mental and physical space a long stay psychiatric ward; 7 Tyrannical equality: a mental health hostel; 8 Working in a world of bodies a medical ward; 9 Nowhere to hide a day case centre; 10 Sitting close to death a palliative care unit
- 11 Reflections on health care culturesBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-64424-8
- 9786610328475
- 0-203-19047-5
- 1-134-64425-6
- 1-280-32847-9
- 0-203-13515-6
- 9780203135150
- OCLC:
- 171115334
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