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Stanley B Messer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a Psychodynamic Perspective on resistance in psychotherapy vive la resistance
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2002Co-Authors: Stanley B MesserAbstract:˜The term resistance has an overly negative connotation, indicating a recalcitrant, oppositional tendency on the part of psychotherapy clients. This article emphasizes the inevitability and ubiquity of resistance and argues that it should be greeted as a therapist’s friend, not as an enemy. It is the way in which clients present themselves to the world in general and to the therapist in particular. Five forms of resistance are presented, including: resistance to the recognition of feelings, fantasies, and motives; resistance to revealing feelings toward the therapist; resistance as a way of demonstrating self-sufficiency; resistance as clients’ reluctance to change their behavior outside the therapy room; and resistance as a function of failure of empathy on the part of the therapist. Vignettes from the author’s practice and from the cases presented in this issue are discussed in terms of these five modes of resistance and their treatment. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 58: 157‐163, 2002.
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a Psychodynamic Perspective on resistance in psychotherapy vive la resistance
in Session: Psychotherapy in Practice, 1996Co-Authors: Stanley B MesserAbstract:The term resistance has an overly negative connotation, indicating a recalcitrant, oppositional tendency on the part of psychotherapy clients. This article emphasizes the inevitability and ubiquity of resistance and argues that it should be greeted as a therapist's friend, not enemy. It is the way that clients present themselves to the world in general and to the therapist in particular. Five forms of resistance are presented including: resistance to the recognition of feelings, fantasies, and motives; resistance to revealing feelings toward the therapist; as a way of demonstrating self-sufficiency; as clients' reluctance to change their behavior outside the therapy room; and resistance as a function of failure of empathy on the part of the therapist. Vignettes from the author's practice and from the cases presented in this issue are discussed in terms of these five modes of resistance and their treatment. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Eric M Plakun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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treatment refractory mood disorders a Psychodynamic Perspective
Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2003Co-Authors: Eric M PlakunAbstract:: Treatment-refractory mood disorders pose a significant problem for clinicians. Although biological approaches are usually emphasized in the treatment of patients with these disorders, preliminary findings from an ongoing, naturalistic, longitudinal study of treatment outcome support the notion that a subset of patients with treatment-refractory mood disorders may respond to careful integration of a Psychodynamic therapeutic approach into the customary biological approaches. Ten Psychodynamic principles that appear to be useful in work with patients with treatment-refractory mood disorders were identified based on a review of the records of 28 patients who were treated using this approach. These principles are presented, discussed, and illustrated by material from a representative case study.
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A Psychodynamic Perspective on Treatment-Refractory Mood Disorders
2002Co-Authors: Eric M PlakunAbstract:Treatment successes can be hampered by treatment-refractory mood disorders. Nine key concepts are outlined to help guide the treatment of these patients.
Rudolf M Oosthuizen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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you have to keep your head on your shoulders a systems Psychodynamic Perspective on women leaders
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Claudehelene Mayer, Louise Tonelli, Rudolf M Oosthuizen, Sabie SurteeAbstract:Background: Women leaders within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa have increased in numbers over the past years and they have changed the dynamics in these institutions. Yet, it is a subject that has hardly been explored from the Perspective of women leaders. Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of women leaders in HEIs from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective using the conflict, identity, boundaries, authority, roles, task (CIBART) model, a well-researched model to analyse systems Psychodynamics and to gain a deeper understanding of (un)conscious dynamics within organisations. Methods: This qualitative study is based on Dilthey‘s modern hermeneutics. Interviews were conducted with 23 women leaders from the Higher Education Resource Services South Africa, network across 8 HEIs. Observations were conducted in one organisation to support the data analysis and interpretation. Data were analysed through content analysis. Findings: Findings show that women leaders re-evaluate and reconstruct themselves constantly within organisations. This continuous re-evaluation and reconstruction become visible through the constructs of the CIBART model. The findings reveal deeper insights into systems Psychodynamics, which considers anxiety within the system where women leaders seem to contain such anxiety by mobilising specific defence mechanisms. Certain diversity markers, such as race, gender, mother tongue, position within the organisation and generational belonging play a role in creating the dynamics. Women leaders’ experience of de-authorisation and role confusion impacts significantly on women leadership and their action towards ownership. Practical implications: The study provides new, valuable and context-specific insights into women leadership seen through the lens of the CIBART model, highlighting unconscious dynamics that need practical attention in the HEIs to empower women leaders for gender-specific leadership training. Originality or value: Findings provide a foundation for future research on women leaders and applied solutions to empower women leaders, whilst reducing anxiety within the system. The study provides complex insights, which should create increasing awareness in women leaders towards being containers of anxiety and creating new ways of empowered women leadership.
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exploring the meaning of trauma in the south african police service a systems Psychodynamic Perspective
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Marna Young, Pieter Koortzen, Rudolf M OosthuizenAbstract:Orientation: This study explores individual stories of trauma and their dissonance with the official, dominant discourse on trauma in the South African Police Service (SAPS) from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Research purpose: The purpose of the research was, firstly, to explore how trauma experienced by South African Police Service members is constructed or ‘talked about’ and made sense of. Questions and issues that are considered relevant to the primary purpose are: which aspects of the working environment do members consider to be the most stressful, traumatic and difficult to cope with, and what is the effect of the change and transition processes on members’ working experiences? Motivation for the study: The authors set out to explore the role of systems Psychodynamics in the experience of trauma and stress in the SAPS. Research design, approach and method: Through this qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study, contributing circumstances and processes are included as additional discourses in an attempt to deepen understanding. The epistemology viewpoint of the study is found in the social constructionism and the data comprise 15 essays by members of the SAPS, all of which have been analysed from the Perspective of systems Psychodynamics. Main findings: Although the effect of trauma on police officers can never be negated, the way in which they deal with trauma seems to be different from what was initially believed. Further, their experience of stress is not solely the result of traumatic experiences but rather the result of traumatic experiences and systems Psychodynamics operating within their organisation – which includes both organisational stressors or dynamics and transformation dynamics. Practical/managerial implications: The history of psychological trauma indicates that constructions of traumatic stress are strongly related to cultural, social and political circumstances. Current psychoanalytic thinking emphasises the meaning of the real occurrence, which causes trauma by changing the person’s experience of the self in relation to self-objects. Practical implications are the loss of the supportive subculture of the police, the loss of masculinity, as well as the loss of the power to be competent and meaningful. Furthermore, feelings of being overwhelmed, powerless and helpless generate anxiety and may have a significant impact on officers’ self-esteem and impede their feelings of omnipotence and invulnerability, which are necessary to cope in the policing environment. Contribution/value-add: The current study found various traumatic and systemsPsychodynamic factors and processes to be anxiety-provoking as a result of exposure to trauma. Without a supportive social group the anxiety becomes uncontained and unmanageable.
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Exploring the meaning of trauma in the South African Police Service : a systems Psychodynamic Perspective : original research
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Pieter Koortzen, Rudolf M OosthuizenAbstract:Orientation : This study explores individual stories of trauma and their dissonance with the official, dominant discourse on trauma in the South African Police Service (SAPS) from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Research purpose : The purpose of the research was, firstly, to explore how trauma experienced by South African Police Service members is constructed or 'talked about' and made sense of. Questions and issues that are considered relevant to the primary purpose are: which aspects of the working environment do members consider to be the most stressful, traumatic and difficult to cope with, and what is the effect of the change and transition processes on members' working experiences? Motivation for the study : The authors set out to explore the role of systems Psychodynamics in the experience of trauma and stress in the SAPS. Research design, approach and method : Through this qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study, contributing circumstances and processes are included as additional discourses in an attempt to deepen understanding. The epistemology viewpoint of the study is found in the social constructionism and the data comprise 15 essays by members of the SAPS, all of which have been analysed from the Perspective of systems Psychodynamics. Main findings : Although the effect of trauma on police officers can never be negated, the way in which they deal with trauma seems to be different from what was initially believed. Further, their experience of stress is not solely the result of traumatic experiences but rather the result of traumatic experiences and systems Psychodynamics operating within their organisation - which includes both organisational stressors or dynamics and transformation dynamics. Practical/managerial implications : The history of psychological trauma indicates that constructions of traumatic stress are strongly related to cultural, social and political circumstances. Current psychoanalytic thinking emphasises the meaning of the real occurrence, which causes trauma by changing the person's experience of the self in relation to self-objects. Practical implications are the loss of the supportive subculture of the police, the loss of masculinity, as well as the loss of the power to be competent and meaningful. Furthermore, feelings of being overwhelmed, powerless and helpless generate anxiety and may have a significant impact on officers' self-esteem and impede their feelings of omnipotence and invulnerability, which are necessary to cope in the policing environment. Contribution/value-add : The current study found various traumatic and systems-Psychodynamic factors and processes to be anxiety-provoking as a result of exposure to trauma. Without a supportive social group the anxiety becomes uncontained and unmanageable.
Frans Cilliers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Followership's experiences of organisational leadership : a systems Psychodynamic Perspective : original research
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Henk Greyvenstein, Frans CilliersAbstract:Orientation: Followers' experiences of leadership in their organisations were qualitatively explored and described from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. The findings revealed a very negative view on how leadership treats followership, and that leadership is seen as inconsistent. Research purpose: The purpose of the research was to describe followership's experiences of organisational leadership from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Motivation for the study: Organisational leadership is under tremendous pressure to perform and often under attack, especially if they do not appear to be caring and supportive. The research was planned to better understand the unconscious nature of this phenomenon. Research design, approach and method: Qualitative, descriptive research was used. Data was collected through Psychodynamic Listening Posts and analysed using discourse analysis. Working hypotheses were formulated per theme and integrated into the research hypothesis. Main findings: Six themes manifested, namely a negative leadership view; idealisation of the past and blaming the present; obsession with race and gender; constantly changing identity; unfinished business and the future; and cope and hope. Practical / managerial implications: Leadership seem to focus more on business than followership issues which leads to followers feeling disregarded and de-authorised. As a result followers withhold authorisation from leadership which may be instrumental in leaderships' difficulties to manage change and transformation effectively. Leadership development needs to incorporate the self-authorisation of leaders as well as the invitation of authorisation by leaders. Contribution / value-add: The data would be useful to leadership towards understanding, repairing and optimising their relationships and organisational impact through people.
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executive coaching in diversity from the systems Psychodynamic Perspective
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Lerato Motsoaledi, Frans CilliersAbstract:Orientation: The researcher applied role analysis from the systems Psychodynamic Perspective to executives in state departments to improve their awareness of the unconscious diversity dynamics that affect their roles. Research purpose: The purpose of this research was to describe the application of systems Psychodynamic role analysis and to determine its trustworthiness in assisting executives to work effectively with conscious and unconscious diversity dynamics in their organisations. Motivation for the study: Executives generally struggle to understand the deeper meaning of diversity behaviour that manifests inside and around them, leading to conflict. Without understanding the unconscious meaning of the behaviour, organisations founder easily. Awareness of below-the-surface behaviour leads to insight and taking responsibility for diversity-related behaviours. Research design, approach and method: The researcher coached six executives in South African state departments over a period of 10 months. The coaching addressed and analysed the executives’ organisational roles. She analysed the data using discourse analysis. Main findings: Themes relating to the diversity dynamics of gender, race, ethnicity, authority, disability, language, age, de-authorisation of diversity work and the coaching process emerged. The coaching assisted the executives to gain insights into below-the-surface diversity dynamics, to address diversity in a sustained manner and to take up their organisational roles more effectively. Practical/managerial implications: Coached executives will have a more objective and dynamic experience of diversity issues that manifest in organisations, between colleagues and within themselves. Contribution/value-add: Executive coaching from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective displays trustworthiness in improving participants’ diversity awareness, especially with regard to gender, race, ethnicity and authorisation.
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followership s experiences of organisational leadership a systems Psychodynamic Perspective
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Henk Greyvenstein, Frans CilliersAbstract:Orientation: Followers’ experiences of leadership in their organisations were qualitatively explored and described from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. The findings revealed a very negative view on how leadership treats followership, and that leadership is seen as inconsistent. Research purpose: The purpose of the research was to describe followership’s experiences of organisational leadership from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Motivation for the study: Organisational leadership is under tremendous pressure to perform and often under attack, especially if they do not appear to be caring and supportive. The research was planned to better understand the unconscious nature of this phenomenon. Research design, approach and method: Qualitative, descriptive research was used. Data was collected through Psychodynamic Listening Posts and analysed using discourse analysis. Working hypotheses were formulated per theme and integrated into the research hypothesis. Main findings: Six themes manifested, namely a negative leadership view; idealisation of the past and blaming the present; obsession with race and gender; constantly changing identity; unfinished business and the future; and cope and hope. Practical/managerial implications: Leadership seem to focus more on business than followership issues which leads to followers feeling disregarded and de-authorised. As a result followers withhold authorisation from leadership which may be instrumental in leaderships’ difficulties to manage change and transformation effectively. Leadership development needs to incorporate the self-authorisation of leaders as well as the invitation of authorisation by leaders. Contribution/value-add: The data would be useful to leadership towards understanding, repairing and optimising their relationships and organisational impact through people.
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executive coaching in diversity from the systems Psychodynamic Perspective original research
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Lerato Motsoaledi, Frans CilliersAbstract:Orientation: The researcher applied role analysis from the systems Psychodynamic Perspective to executives in state departments to improve their awareness of the unconscious diversity dynamics that affect their roles. Research purpose: The purpose of this research was to describe the application of systems Psychodynamic role analysis and to determine its trustworthiness in assisting executives to work effectively with conscious and unconscious diversity dynamics in their organisations. Motivation for the study: Executives generally struggle to understand the deeper meaning of diversity behaviour that manifests inside and around them, leading to conflict. Without understanding the unconscious meaning of the behaviour, organisations founder easily. Awareness of below-the-surface behaviour leads to insight and taking responsibility for diversity-related behaviours. Research design, approach and method: The researcher coached six executives in South African state departments over a period of 10 months. The coaching addressed and analysed the executives' organisational roles. She analysed the data using discourse analysis. Main findings: Themes relating to the diversity dynamics of gender, race, ethnicity, authority, disability, language, age, de-authorisation of diversity work and the coaching process emerged. The coaching assisted the executives to gain insights into below-the-surface diversity dynamics, to address diversity in a sustained manner and to take up their organisational roles more effectively. Practical / managerial implications: Coached executives will have a more objective and dynamic experience of diversity issues that manifest in organisations, between colleagues and within themselves. Contribution / value-add: Executive coaching from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective displays trustworthiness in improving participants' diversity awareness, especially with regard to gender, race, ethnicity and authorisation.
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Symbolism associated with Leadership in South Africa: A systems-Psychodynamic Perspective
Myth & Symbol, 2007Co-Authors: Pieter Koortzen, Frans CilliersAbstract:ABSTRACT This article focuses on the symbolic representations projected onto and into leaders in the South African organisational context. The aim is to explore the symbolic roles of leaders and the behavioural impact thereof. The research is conducted from a systems-Psychodynamic Perspective and a qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study was conducted in an attempt to identify, analyse, describe and determine the impact of symbolic roles on leaders. The results seem to indicate that a number of symbolic roles, based on the diversity dimensions of race (black and white) and gender (male and female) and their different configurations, can be identified. The results are presented in the form of a number of working hypotheses on the impact of the symbolic roles on the conflict, identity, boundaries, authorisation, roles and tasks of leaders (CIBART).
Pieter Koortzen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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exploring the meaning of trauma in the south african police service a systems Psychodynamic Perspective
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Marna Young, Pieter Koortzen, Rudolf M OosthuizenAbstract:Orientation: This study explores individual stories of trauma and their dissonance with the official, dominant discourse on trauma in the South African Police Service (SAPS) from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Research purpose: The purpose of the research was, firstly, to explore how trauma experienced by South African Police Service members is constructed or ‘talked about’ and made sense of. Questions and issues that are considered relevant to the primary purpose are: which aspects of the working environment do members consider to be the most stressful, traumatic and difficult to cope with, and what is the effect of the change and transition processes on members’ working experiences? Motivation for the study: The authors set out to explore the role of systems Psychodynamics in the experience of trauma and stress in the SAPS. Research design, approach and method: Through this qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study, contributing circumstances and processes are included as additional discourses in an attempt to deepen understanding. The epistemology viewpoint of the study is found in the social constructionism and the data comprise 15 essays by members of the SAPS, all of which have been analysed from the Perspective of systems Psychodynamics. Main findings: Although the effect of trauma on police officers can never be negated, the way in which they deal with trauma seems to be different from what was initially believed. Further, their experience of stress is not solely the result of traumatic experiences but rather the result of traumatic experiences and systems Psychodynamics operating within their organisation – which includes both organisational stressors or dynamics and transformation dynamics. Practical/managerial implications: The history of psychological trauma indicates that constructions of traumatic stress are strongly related to cultural, social and political circumstances. Current psychoanalytic thinking emphasises the meaning of the real occurrence, which causes trauma by changing the person’s experience of the self in relation to self-objects. Practical implications are the loss of the supportive subculture of the police, the loss of masculinity, as well as the loss of the power to be competent and meaningful. Furthermore, feelings of being overwhelmed, powerless and helpless generate anxiety and may have a significant impact on officers’ self-esteem and impede their feelings of omnipotence and invulnerability, which are necessary to cope in the policing environment. Contribution/value-add: The current study found various traumatic and systemsPsychodynamic factors and processes to be anxiety-provoking as a result of exposure to trauma. Without a supportive social group the anxiety becomes uncontained and unmanageable.
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Exploring the meaning of trauma in the South African Police Service : a systems Psychodynamic Perspective : original research
Sa Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Pieter Koortzen, Rudolf M OosthuizenAbstract:Orientation : This study explores individual stories of trauma and their dissonance with the official, dominant discourse on trauma in the South African Police Service (SAPS) from a systems Psychodynamic Perspective. Research purpose : The purpose of the research was, firstly, to explore how trauma experienced by South African Police Service members is constructed or 'talked about' and made sense of. Questions and issues that are considered relevant to the primary purpose are: which aspects of the working environment do members consider to be the most stressful, traumatic and difficult to cope with, and what is the effect of the change and transition processes on members' working experiences? Motivation for the study : The authors set out to explore the role of systems Psychodynamics in the experience of trauma and stress in the SAPS. Research design, approach and method : Through this qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study, contributing circumstances and processes are included as additional discourses in an attempt to deepen understanding. The epistemology viewpoint of the study is found in the social constructionism and the data comprise 15 essays by members of the SAPS, all of which have been analysed from the Perspective of systems Psychodynamics. Main findings : Although the effect of trauma on police officers can never be negated, the way in which they deal with trauma seems to be different from what was initially believed. Further, their experience of stress is not solely the result of traumatic experiences but rather the result of traumatic experiences and systems Psychodynamics operating within their organisation - which includes both organisational stressors or dynamics and transformation dynamics. Practical/managerial implications : The history of psychological trauma indicates that constructions of traumatic stress are strongly related to cultural, social and political circumstances. Current psychoanalytic thinking emphasises the meaning of the real occurrence, which causes trauma by changing the person's experience of the self in relation to self-objects. Practical implications are the loss of the supportive subculture of the police, the loss of masculinity, as well as the loss of the power to be competent and meaningful. Furthermore, feelings of being overwhelmed, powerless and helpless generate anxiety and may have a significant impact on officers' self-esteem and impede their feelings of omnipotence and invulnerability, which are necessary to cope in the policing environment. Contribution/value-add : The current study found various traumatic and systems-Psychodynamic factors and processes to be anxiety-provoking as a result of exposure to trauma. Without a supportive social group the anxiety becomes uncontained and unmanageable.
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Symbolism associated with Leadership in South Africa: A systems-Psychodynamic Perspective
Myth & Symbol, 2007Co-Authors: Pieter Koortzen, Frans CilliersAbstract:ABSTRACT This article focuses on the symbolic representations projected onto and into leaders in the South African organisational context. The aim is to explore the symbolic roles of leaders and the behavioural impact thereof. The research is conducted from a systems-Psychodynamic Perspective and a qualitative, explorative, social phenomenological study was conducted in an attempt to identify, analyse, describe and determine the impact of symbolic roles on leaders. The results seem to indicate that a number of symbolic roles, based on the diversity dimensions of race (black and white) and gender (male and female) and their different configurations, can be identified. The results are presented in the form of a number of working hypotheses on the impact of the symbolic roles on the conflict, identity, boundaries, authorisation, roles and tasks of leaders (CIBART).
