The Psychodynamics of Anxiety in Organisations

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dc.contributor.advisorSolomon, Margot
dc.contributor.authorLangley, Catherine Louise
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-23T03:43:14Z
dc.date.available2015-06-23T03:43:14Z
dc.date.copyright2014
dc.date.created2015
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2015-06-23T02:57:54Z
dc.description.abstractUnconscious collaborative defences against anxiety can shape an organisation’s structure and processes in ways that diminish both organisational effectiveness and individual well-being. This is rarely discussed in business writing, but is explored in psychodynamically-informed, organisationally-focused literature that emphasises the contribution to be made by a psychodynamic orientation to organisational issues. This dissertation is a hermeneutic review of that literature, to which I bring a dual tradition of business education and corporate career, followed by psychodynamic training and practice. In order to provide context to that primary inquiry, and to bring a business perspective to the integration between business and psychodynamics proposed by the literature, I also consider business-oriented views in connection with safety, emotion, and learning, all of which are topics of interest to psychodynamics; and I explore a recently-proposed alternative to such integration that questions the positivist assumption that an ideal world is one in which we can predict and control what happens. At the end of the dissertation, I discuss the contrast between business and psychodynamic perspectives, the extent to which this contrast creates obstacles to their integration, and suggestions for bridging this gap.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/8872
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectBusinessen_NZ
dc.subjectEmotionen_NZ
dc.subjectSystems psychodynamicsen_NZ
dc.subjectTavistocken_NZ
dc.subjectSocial defenceen_NZ
dc.subjectHermeneuticen_NZ
dc.subjectLiterature reviewen_NZ
dc.subjectWorkplaceen_NZ
dc.subjectAnxietyen_NZ
dc.subjectOrganisationen_NZ
dc.titleThe Psychodynamics of Anxiety in Organisationsen_NZ
dc.typeDissertation
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thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Dissertations
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Psychotherapyen_NZ
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