Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World

Halina Brunning is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Organizational Consultant and Executive Coach. She has worked in the British and Polish National Health Services as a psychologist, therapist, manager and consultant and published extensively on clinical and organizational issues Her books include 'Executive Coaching: Systems-Psychodynamic Perspective' and 'Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World'. Halina currently works as a freelance coach and consultant and runs her own international coaching practice in Europe. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, OPUS, Association of Coaching and founder member of the Coaching Psychology Forum.

PROLOGUE, The Myth that Binds: The past and present as prologue to the ACT I: ON WAR AND CONFLICT , SCENE ONE A beam of darkness—understanding the terrorist mind SCENE TWO "Si vis pacem para bellum" Psychoanalysis, peace education and conflict literacy SCENE THREE Psychoanalysis and international relationships: Large-group identity, traumas at the hand of the "other," and transgenerational transmission of trauma ACT II: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE DISAPPEARING CONTAINERS SCENE FOUR Oedipus Rex at Enron: Leadership, Oedipal struggles, and organizational collapse SCENE FIVE Narcissism project and corporate decay: The case of General Motors SCENE SIX Beneath the financial crisis ACT III: ON LEADERSHIP AND THE ILLUSION OF CONTAINMENT, SCENE SEVEN A dynamic reading of The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales SCENE EIGHT Barack Obama’s postpartisan dream: Leadership and the limits of the depressive position, SCENE NINE Images of The Epilogue