The Psychosocial and Organization Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Prologue: Ian Parker on the psychosocial, psychoanalysis and critical psychology, in conversation with Marianna Fotaki

   1. Prologue: Ian Parker on the psychosocial, psychoanalysis and critical psychology in conversation with Marianna Fotaki

      • Ian Parker, Marianna Fotaki

      Pages 1-17

   2. Introduction

      • Kate Kenny, Marianna Fotaki

      Pages 18-30

3. The Psychosocial in Organizations: Theoretical Ideas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Debt Society: Psychosocial Aspects of the (Greek) Crisis

      • Yannis Stavrakakis

      Pages 33-59

   3. Re-theorizing Organizational Creativity through a Psychosocial Lens: Introducing the Radical Imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis

      • Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Marianna Fotaki

      Pages 60-82

   4. Disclosing Affect: A Freudian Inquiry into Organizational Storytelling

      • Yiannis Gabriel

      Pages 83-103

   5. Freedom through Work: The Psychosocial, Affect and Work

      • Parisa Dashtipour

      Pages 104-125

4. Researching the Psychosocial in Organizations: Methodological Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. It Is Difficult to Think in the Slammer: A Social Photo-Matrix in a Penal Institution

      • Burkard Sievers

      Pages 129-157

   3. From Research Reflexivity to Research Affectivity: Ethnographic Research in Organizations

      • Kate Kenny, Sarah Gilmore

      Pages 158-182

5. The Application of Psychosocial Approaches to Understanding Organizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Narrative, Fantasy and Mourning: A Critical Exploration of Life and Loss in Assisted Living Environments

      • Jason Glynos, Karen West, Barbara Hagger, Rachel Shaw

      Pages 185-214

   3. The Doctor/Manager Relationship as a Psychosocial Encounter: A Scene of Fantasy and Domination?

      • Nancy Harding, Hugh Lee

      Pages 215-240

   4. Community, Communitarianism and Displacement Anxiety

      • Lynn Froggett

      Pages 241-262

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-268

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Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of psychosocial approaches to organization studies and critical management studies.

• Organization studies
• Affect
• Emotion
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychosocial
• Work
• creativity
• Critical Psychology
• organization
• organizations
• psychoanalysis
• psychology

• Queen’s University Belfast Management School, UK

  Kate Kenny

• University of Warwick, UK

  Marianna Fotaki

Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, King's College London, UK Yiannis Gabriel, the School of Management of Bath University, UK Parisa Dashtipour, Middlesex University Business School, London, UK Burkard Sievers, University of Wuppertal, Germany Sarah Gilmore, University of Portsmouth Business School, UK Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK Karen West, Aston University, UK Barbara Hagger, Aston University, UK Rachel Shaw, Aston University, UK Nancy Harding, Bradford University School of Management, UK Hugh Lee, Bradford University School of Management, UK Lynn Froggett, University of Central Lancashire, UK

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