Doing the Business of Group Relations Conferences: Exploring the Discourse [Hardcover]

Group Relations conferences offer opportunities to learn about group, organisational and social dynamics; the exercise of authority and power; the interplay between tradition, innovation and change; and the relationship of organisations to their social, political and economic environments.

This book, the fifth in a series of Tavistock Group Relations Conferences, contains a collection of papers presented at the fifth Belgirate conference, plus three additional papers reflecting on and making sense of several participants conference experiences. Taken together, these chapters study the discourse of Group Relations conferences as well as reflecting on the changing nature and shifting patterns of this discourse. In Doing the Business of Group Relations Conferences, authors reflect on the vicissitudes of meanings this expression generates.

Foreword;  Introduction;  Section I: Exploring the Discourse of Psychoanalysis in Group Relations;  1.1 Complacency: The Defence of the privileged, Julian Lousada;  1.2 Fifty Ways to Use (and Abuse) the Unconscious: An Invitation to a (Sincere and Thorough) Discussion about Certain Defences Employed in the Group Relations Community, Daphna Bahat;  1.3 Has the World Changed? Has Group Relations Changed? Considerations of the Group Relations Movement in a Postmodern World, Bernard Gertler;  Section II: Exploring the Discourse of Organisation (B-A-R-T) in Group Relations;  2.1 Doing Business Together: Lateral and Vertical Relations in the Institutional Partnering for a Group Relations Conference, Jinette De Gooijer; 2.2 The Yoga Event: an important here-and-now event in the Group Relations Conference bouquet, Rachel KelÓU