Containment, Organisations and the Working Task

Tiago Mendes is a Psychologist who holds an MBA (Rice University, US) and a PhD (University of Essex, UK) in Psychoanalytic Studies. R.D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK.

Foreword by Louisa Diana Brunner Introduction Part I: Conceptual Origins and (Dis)Entanglements: Even Ideas Have Origins 1. The Antecedents and Development of Container-Contained 2. Emotional Containment and Emotional Regulation 3. On Containment and Holding: A Short Introductory Note Part II: Psychoanalysis Beyond the Couch 4. The Early Days of the Tavistock Institute 5. Researching the Unconscious in Organisations 6. Operationalisation of Concepts in Psychoanalytic Research 7. Cultural Differences Between Groups Part III: Applications 8. If Only We Could Contain Emotions: A Contribution to an Overview of the Application of Containment to Organisations 9. An Empirical Approach to Disentangle Intertwined Concepts 10. Organisational Research and Consulting and the Idea of Containment 11. Dancing Between the Contained and the Container and Their Reciprocal Relatedness in Group Relations 12. Leadership and Containment 13. Father, Mother and the Guinea Pig Children 14. The Challenge of Containment: A Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach End Note