Exploring Individual and Organisational Boundaries: A Tavistock Open System Approach

279 Pages·1979·13.015 MB·English

by  W. Gordon Lawrence

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Organizational Boundaries
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EXPLORING INDIVIDUAL
AND ORGANIZATIONAL
BOUNDARIES
A Tavistock Open Systems
Approach
Edited by
W. GORDON LAWRENCE
with a new Foreword by
Mannie Sher
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Acknowledgements
James P. Gustafson
'The pseudomutual small group or institution' first appeared in Human
Relations, 29, No. 10, 1976. It is reproduced by permission of the Tavistock
Institute of Human Relations and Plenum Press.
Edward B. Klein
A shorter version of 'Manifestations of transference in small training groups'
entitled 'Transference in training groups' appeared in, and is reproduced by
permission of, Journal of Personality and Social Systems, 1, no. 1, 1977.
Margaret J. Rioch
'The A. K. Rice group relations conferences as a reflection of society' first
appeared in, and is reproduced by special permission from, The Journal of
Personality and Social Systems, 1, no. 1, April 1977. Copyrighted by the
A. K. Rice Institute.
David L. Singer, Boris M. Astrachan, Laurence J. Could, Edward B. Klein
'Boundary management in psychological work with groups' first appeared in,
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 11, no. 2, 1975.

Contributors
and their positions at the time of the original edition (1979)
W. GORDON LAWRENCE, MA Consultant, and Joint Director of The Group
Relations Training Programme, Tavistock
EDITOR
Institute of Human Relations.
BORIS M .ASTRACHAN, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Yale University
School of Medicine; Director, Connecticut Mental
Health Centre.
Professor of English Literature, University of East
Anglia.
ROBERT H. GOSLING, MD, Chairman, Professional Committee of the
~~cpsychD.P,M Tavistock Clinic; Consultant, Tavistock Institute
of Human Relations.
Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical
Psychology Doctoral Training Program, City
College of the City University of New York;
President, A. K. Rice Institute, Washington.
DENNIS CUERECA, BA Industrial Relations Adviser, Central Personnel
Department, Tube Investments Limited.
JAMES P. CUSTAFSON, MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of
Wisconsin.
EDWARD B. KLEINP, ~ D Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry; Director
of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology,
University of Cincinnati; Board Member, A. K.
Rice Institute.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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ERIC. J. MILLER, MA, P ~ D Consultant, and Joint Director of The Group
Relations Training Programme, Tavistock
Institute of Human Relations.
JAMES C. MILLEPR,~ D Professor and Director, Clinical Training
Program, George Washington University.
BARRY W.M . PALMER, MA Senior Consultant, Grubb Institute of Behavioural
Studies.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, American
MARGARET J. RIOCH P ~ D
University; Clinical Professor, Department of
Psychiatry (Psychology), Georgetown University
School of Medicine; Member, Executive Council,
Washington School of Psychiatry; Board Member,
A. K. Rice Institute.
ROGER L. SHAPIRO, MD Professor, Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, George Washington
University School of Medicine.
Chairperson Department of Professional
Psychology, AntiochMew England Graduate
School; Board Member, A. K. Rice Institute.
SUSAN TAYLOR, Susan Taylor is a doctoral candidate in clinical
MARCIA BOCDANOFF, psychology at the City University of New York,
DANIELLE BROWN, and a predoctoral psychology fellow in the
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School
LINDA HILLMAN.
CHERYL KURASH, of Medicine. The other authors of 'By Women,
JULIE SPAN, for Women' are also advanced students in
BARJIARA THACHER, graduate and undergraduate programmes in
LlSSA WEINSTEIN psychology at the City University of New York.
JOHN ZINNER. MD Section on Personality Development, Adult
Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda.
Contents
EDITORIAL FOREWORD TO THE SERIES xi
PREFACE xiii
NEW FORE WORD TO THISEDITION xix
1 Introductory Essay: Exploring Boundaries
W. Gordon Lawrence
2 Boundary Management in Psychological Work with Groups
David L. Singer, Boris M. Astrachan, Laurence J. Gould,
Edward B. Klein
3 The A. K. Rice Group Relations Conferences as a
Reflection of Society
Margaret J. Rioch
4 The Pseudomutual Small Group or Institution
James P. Gustafson
5 Another Source of Conservatism in Groups
Robert H. Gosling
6 Manifestations of Transference in Small Training Groups
Edward B. Klein
7 A Manager's View of the Institutional Event
Dennis Guereca
8 Men and Women at Work: A Group Relations Conference on
Person and Role
Laurence J. Could
9 By Women, for Women: A Group Relations Conference
Susan Taylor, Marcia Bogdunoff; Danielle Brown, Linda Hillman,
Cheryl Kurash, Julie Span, Barbara Thacher, Lissa Weinstein
10 A Model for Distinguishing Supportive from Insight-oriented
Psychotherapy Groups
Robert H. Klein