Identity, Theory, and Practice in Group Relations presents a range of perspectives on group relations, capturing both a social scientific and psychoanalytic perspective.
Each chapter explores themes of identity, theory, and practice, where the process of looking at others and oneself is amplified, and the task of exploring the space we occupy is changed. Identity, Theory and Practice in Group Relations includes discussion of critical race theory, corruption, Black leadership and sibling relations, the role of technology and how it has been adopted and adapted by group relations practitioners, as well as specific perspectives on group relations in Italy and China and reflections on group relations through the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, academics and scholars of Group Relations, as well as managers and organisational members wanting to learn more about how Groups Relations methods can contribute to their organisational success.
Table of Contents:
About the Contributors
Foreword by Mannie Sher
Introduction
Part I: International Perspectives
Introduction to Part 1
Chapter 1. For now we see through a glass, darkly…“: What PCCA means for the global Group Relations Community – and how Group Relations is in the heart of PCCA’s work
Dorothee Von Tippelskirch-Eissing
Chapter 2. Group Relations in China: Portraits (selfies) of cross-cultural Study of Organizational Development 2014 – 2021 Seth Harkins, Nick Bartlett, Yu-Kuang Kevin Hsu, Ming-Hui Daniel Hsu
Seth Harkins, EdD, Nicholas Bartlett, PhD, Yu-Kuang Kevin Hsu, PhD, Xiaohua Lu, PhD, Jeffrey Roth, MD, Xumei Wang, MD, PhD
Chapter 3. The Italian position
Claudio Cassardo, Maria Pia Conte, Luca Mingarelli, Antonio Sama, Franca Fubini, Rossella Torretta, Louisa Diana Brunner, Chiara Ghetti, Elio Vera, Francesco Noseda, Pietro Catania, Manuela Martelli
Part II: Locating Directorship and Leadership
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 4. Too black to lead: When authority trumps race?
Mary Fullerton, Urban Hudlin
Chapter 5. The director’s experience of postponing a conference
Louisa Diana Brunner
Chapter 6. Sibling relations as an extension to Group Relations selfie
Mira Erlich-Ginor, Shmuel Erlich, Yael Shenhav Sharoni, Joseph Triest
Section III: Post-conference Reflections
Introduction to Part 3
Chapter 7. Behind the curtain of Belgirate VII: Reflections from the Tech Team
Elyce Cole, Matthew Gieve
Chapter 8. Our digital footprint: Reflections on presence and absence
Sivanie Shiran
Chapter 9. Accepted and un-accepted
Robert C Hsiung, Joseph E Wise, and Jeffrey D Roth
Chapter 10. Spotlighting corruption through the Group Relations lens - A selfie
Shmuel Erlich, Yael Shenhav Sharoni, Mira Erlich-Ginor, and Joseph (Yossi) Triest
Index
About the Author :
Coreene Archer is a principal consultant and executive coach at the Tavistock Institute, UK. Coreene’s interests lie in the study of leadership and identity. Her work has expanded group relations ideas to include work with emergent and young leaders. Coreene teaches on several programmes at the Institute and externally.
Gordon Strauss is a former board member and treasurer of the the A. K. Rice Institute (AKRI) and former director of the AKRI National Conference. He represented the AKRI on the Belgirate Management and Administrative Team from 2014-2024. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville, USA.
Moshe Bergstein is a training psychoanalyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He teaches and supervises at the Psychoanalytic Institute and in various psychoanalytic psychotherapy programmes. He studies and publishes on the work of W. R. Bion, and the interface between psychoanalysis and the arts.
Ellen L. Short was Professor at Long Island University, author, and consultant, who was an active member of the A. K. Rice Institute and the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems. She died in May of 2024.
