Lost in Familiar Places / Robert Devigne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devigne, Robert, Author.

Contributor:

Carr, Wesley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Organizational behavior.

Family psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Learning from the Family

Part II. Moving to Organizations

Part III. Applying the Interpretive Stance

Part IV. Developing Wider Interpretations

Final Reflections

Notes

Bibliography

Permissions

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300157918

0300157916

OCLC:

1024012397