November 13, 2009
Wednesday’s Financial Times has a great article with New York psychoanalyst and organisational consultant Larry Gould on the application of psychoanalysis to organisations. It’s great to see a mainstream paper like the FT taking up the challenge of writing about irrational behaviour and the unconscious in such an accessible way.…
October 26, 2008
My colleague consultant and psychoanalyst Ian Miller from New York has started to share his thoughts over at Accord Consulting. I worked with Ian at Saturday’s ISPSO regional meeting here in New York and I’m really looking forward to his thoughts on the application of psychoanalysis to organisations. Ian’s company…
October 20, 2008
Let’s imagine that disappointment is a useful refuge, so that once you feel disappointed you know where you are. This is one version. The other version is that there’s a life organised to avoid the possibility of disappointment. And then the question would be, what’s the big problem with disappointment?…
October 20, 2008
I would want to promote the idea that it’s impossible to be misunderstood. That when one feels misunderstood, what you’ve stumbled upon is the fact that there are other people in the world. In a way that is the most interesting thing. The better world would be one in which…
October 14, 2008
I spent Saturday at a conference on Race. As the workshop was sponsored by the White Institute (and a declaration here – I was a guest of the WI on the day) I assumed that the topic would be explored from a psychodynamic perspective. As such the kinds of questions…
September 26, 2008
I’ll be spending the month of October in New York and am looking forward to catching up with some old friends (and maybe a few new ones as well!). There are a number of interesting psychoanalytic conferences and workshops I’ll be attending (I’ll write more about them closer to the…
February 28, 2008
The Director of the Tavistock Institute in London is blogging. My colleague Phil Swann was a journalist in a previous life so expect great things from Swann’s Way. So far he’s talking about electing mayors (in London and New York); the value of storytelling in organisations; the importance of organisational…
November 22, 2007
Former urban planner, cycling advocate and doctoral researcher Adrian was almost run over by a car while cycling to his Lacanian seminar. So he wondered what Lacan might have to say about motoring and roads…and then wrote a paper about it called The Road to Nowhere I have attempted to…
November 12, 2007
A psychoanalytic perspective on the organisational dynamics of music groups (and other kinds of organisations) that’s what my American colleague Mike Jolkovski from ISPSO will be blogging about over at Working Through. Ever since the release of Metallica – Some Kind of Monster in 2004 I’ve been running into people…
