The Psychosocial and Organization Studies

Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, King's College London, UK Yiannis Gabriel, the School of Management of Bath University, UK Parisa Dashtipour, Middlesex University Business School, London, UK Burkard Sievers, University of Wuppertal, Germany Sarah Gilmore, University of Portsmouth Business School, UK Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK Karen West, Aston University, UK Barbara Hagger, Aston University, UK Rachel Shaw, Aston University, UK Nancy Harding, Bradford University School of Management, UK Hugh Lee, Bradford University School of Management, UK Lynn Froggett, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Interview: Ian Parker on the Psychosocial, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology in Conversation with Marianna Fotaki 1. Introduction; Kate Kenny and Marianna Fotaki SECTION I: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IN ORGAIZATIONS: THEORETICAL IDEAS 2. Debt Society: Psychosocial Aspects of the (Greek) Crisis; Yannis Stavrakakis 3. Re-theorizing Organizational Creativity through a Psychosocial Lens: Introducing the Radical Imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis; Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Marianna Fotaki 4. Disclosing Affect: A Freudian Inquiry into Organizational Storytelling; Yiannis Gabriel 5. Freedom through Work: The Psychosocial, Affect and Work; Parisa Dashtipour SECTION II: RESEARCHING THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IN ORGANIZATIONS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 6. It is Difficult to Think in the Slammer: A Social Photo-Matrix in a Penal Institution; Burkard Sievers 7. From Research Reflexivity to Research Affectivity: Ethnographic Research in Organizations; Kate Kenny and Sarah Gilmore 8. Narrative, Fantasy, and Mourning: A Critical Exploration of Life & Loss in Assisted Living Environments; Jason Glynos, Karen West, Barbara Hagger and Rachel Shaw 9. The Doctor/Manager Relationship as a Psychosocial Encounter: A Scene of Fantasy and Domination?; Nancy Harding and Hugh Lee 10. Community, Communitarianism and Displacement Anxiety; Lynn Froggett