The Psychosocial and Organization Studies: Affect at Work

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Prologue: Ian Parker on the psychosocial, psychoanalysis and critical psychology in conversation with Marianna Fotaki....Pages 1-17
Introduction....Pages 18-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Debt Society: Psychosocial Aspects of the (Greek) Crisis....Pages 33-59
Re-theorizing Organizational Creativity through a Psychosocial Lens: Introducing the Radical Imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis....Pages 60-82
Disclosing Affect: A Freudian Inquiry into Organizational Storytelling....Pages 83-103
Freedom through Work: The Psychosocial, Affect and Work....Pages 104-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
It Is Difficult to Think in the Slammer: A Social Photo-Matrix in a Penal Institution....Pages 129-157
From Research Reflexivity to Research Affectivity: Ethnographic Research in Organizations....Pages 158-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Narrative, Fantasy and Mourning: A Critical Exploration of Life and Loss in Assisted Living Environments....Pages 185-214
The Doctor/Manager Relationship as a Psychosocial Encounter: A Scene of Fantasy and Domination?....Pages 215-240
Community, Communitarianism and Displacement Anxiety....Pages 241-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-268