American Medicine As Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Stein, Howard F.

Anthropology

Routledge

Listening Deeply

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

The Psychodynamics of Medical Practice: Unconscious Factors in Patient Care

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

University of California Press

<p>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.</p>

Psychodynamics of Medical Practice: Unconscious Factors in Patient Care

Insight and Imagination explores the primacy of the self in organizational research, consulting, and management / leadership. Contesting the radical dichotomy between 'objective' and 'subjective' understanding, and the devaluation of the latter, Professor Howard F. Stein argues that the imagination of the observer, informed by his or her unconscious, can lead to a greater understanding of the psychological reality of the workplace and in turn to better informed problem solving. Insight emerges from the disciplined use of the imagination rather than its repudiation. The book brings countertransference to center stage as a tool for understanding the emotional experience of organizational life and for formulating interventions. One often neglected use of the imagination is the capacity to not have to know beforehand what one needs to learn_what poet John Keats called 'negative capability'. Insight and Imagination proposes the use of the humanities as a means of expanding and deepening one's access to the inner life of organizations. The author draws from the art created by others and from his own poetry written and often used during an organizational consultation. Among the specific contexts discussed in this book are the experience of organizational downsizing; helping organizations to grieve after change and loss; recognizing 'red herrings' in organizational decision making; the language of organizational change; recognizing hidden agendas in meetings; and reflective practice in organizational life.

Insight and Imagination: A Study in Knowing and Not-Knowing in Organizational Life

Social Sciences

University Press of America

Insight and Imagination explores the primacy of the self in organizational research, consulting, and management / leadership. Contesting the radical dichotomy between "objective" and "subjective" understanding, and the devaluation of the latter, Professor Howard F. Stein argues that the imagination of the observer, informed by his or her unconscious, can lead to a greater understanding of the psychological reality of the workplace and in turn to better informed problem solving. Insight emerges from the disciplined use of the imagination rather than its repudiation. The book brings countertransference to center stage as a tool for understanding the emotional experience of organizational life and for formulating interventions. One often neglected use of the imagination is the capacity to not have to know beforehand what one needs to learn―what poet John Keats called "negative capability." Insight and Imagination proposes the use of the humanities as a means of expanding and deepening one's access to the inner life of organizations. The author draws from the art created by others and from his own poetry written and often used during an organizational consultation. Among the specific contexts discussed in this book are the experience of organizational downsizing; helping organizations to grieve after change and loss; recognizing "red herrings" in organizational decision making; the language of organizational change; recognizing hidden agendas in meetings; and reflective practice in organizational life.

This book advances the intriguing hypothesis that human beings bend to construct the world they inhabit from their bodies and families outward to nature and society.

Developmental Time, Cultural Space: Studies in Psychogeography

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Psychogeography is the study of how issues, experiences, and processes that result from growing up in a human body are symbolized and played out in the wider social and natural worlds. This volume assembles both classic and contemporary contributions to the field of psychogeography. Together they constitute an intellectual and historical foundation for the psychological study of images of the world and of society. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Maps from the Mind: Readings in Psychogeography

<p>Each contributed chapter is introduced by the editors (both are anthropologists connected with medicine), and the whole is a dynamic profile of a distinctive cultural state of mind. Varied and intriguing contributions focus on the Oklahoma experience which contributes to and is mirrored in the larger national experience with regard to various ethnic groups, blacks, sports, farming, architecture, and education, among other topics. Paper edition (2545-4), $14.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

The Culture of Oklahoma

History

Americas

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