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Program Five

Psychoanalytic Understanding of Work Groups and Organizational Dynamics

 

Instructors: Howard Book, Barbara Williams

The primary task of this course is the introduction to a psychoanalytic perspective on how groups and organizations—like the individuals who are in them—not only have "known," conscious, overt, and rational aspects to how they function, but also powerful "unknown," unconscious, quirky, and irrational dispositions. These unconscious qualities, unrecognized and unacknowledged, risk eroding the organization's capacity for attending its objectives, compromising its members from achieving their professional goals, promoting the emergence of a toxic culture, and encouraging ineffectual decision making. When explored, this unconscious quality can provide organizations a space for creative and innovative encounters and outputs. Most of us as professionals are part of these settings (departments, committees, associations, etc.). The theoretical aspects are taken from the works of Klein, Bion, Menzies, and others.

Times: Thursdays, March 8 to April 5, 7:30–10:00

Cost: $180

To register, click here. For further information, contact Maria Cadilha at info@torontopsychoanalysis.com or 416-922-7770.

 

FILM OUTREACH EVENING
Special Film Presentation and Discussion: Swathi Kiranam (Shooting Star), with Salman Akhtar and Madhu Vallabhaneni, March 10, 2012, Innis College, University of Toronto

EXTENSION PROGRAM SIX: The Relevance of the Body, Sex, Money, and Intra-Psychic Conflict in Contemporary Clinical Practice
Les Fleischer, coordinator. Six evenings, beginning April 12, 2012, at 40 St. Clair E.

SCIENTIFIC MEETING
"Teaching Empathic Understanding," with Alan Kindler, April 11, 2012, 40 St. Clair Ave. E., 7:30–9:30 pm. Open to all.

ANNUAL DAY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
"Envy: Normal and Pathological," with Carolyn and Steven Ellman, April 28, 2012, Hart House, University of Toronto

36th ATPPP SCIENTIFIC SESSION
"Under the Skin," with Allesandra Lemma, May 12, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto

 
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