Publications

This section includes many of the articles, papers and presentations written by Worklab principals. This represents our commitment to deepening and refining our work through reflection with clients, other consultants, and the academic community. In many instances there are hyperlinks to the documents themselves; if you would like copies of the others please feel free to contact us. We are also honored to offer the archive of writing about social and organizational dynamics of our former colleague Laurence J. Gould. Dr. Gould, who tragically died in May of 2010, was a leading figure in the field of socio-analysis and systems psychodynamics for more than four decades and leaves a rich legacy of scholarship and reflective consultation that is represented by these articles.

Laurence Gould

Coaching Senior Executives: Personal/Work Conflicts, Mortality and Legacy.” in, John Newton, Susan Long and Burkard Sievers (Eds.). Coaching-in- Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach. London: Karnac, 2005.

Getting Off on the Right Foot:” – Coaching Young Adults.” In Halina Brunning (Ed.). Executive Coaching from a Systems Psychodynamic Perspective. New York/London: Karnac, 2005.

Collective Working Through: The Role and Function of Memorialization.” Presented at a Conference, Memory, Memorials and Collective Working Through. Annual Meeting of the New York Freudian Society, co-sponsored by Pace University Downtown NYC, Psychology Department. February 8, 2003.

The Leader’s Capacity for Mobilizing a “Third Position:” Task-Oriented Mental States and their Distortions.” Presented at the OPUS, Organization for Promoting Understanding in Society, Conference. London. November 2002.

Managing a Divestiture. The Psychological and Emotional Dilemmas of Ending Personal, Work and Organizational Relationships.” in Edward Klein, Faith Gabelnick and Peter Herr (Eds.). Dynamic Consultation in a Changing Workplace. Psychosocial Press. Madison, CT. Fall 2000.

Managing the Post Merger Process.” Presentation to METRO. May 1999.

The Systems Dynamics of a Joint Venture: Anxiety, Social Defenses and the Management of Mutual Dependence.” Human Relations. Vol. 2, No. 6. 1999. pp. 697-722.

A Political Visionary in Mid-life: Notes on Leadership and the Life Cycle.” in, Robert French and Russ Vince (Eds.). Group Relations, Management and Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Correspondences between Bion’s Basic Assumption Theory and Klein’s Developmental Positions: An Outline.” Free Associations. Vol. 7, Part 1, No. 41. 1998. pp. 15-30.

Holding the Center: Depressive Position Values, Leadership and the Moral Order.” Presented to OFEK. Jerusalem. February 1998.

Introduction (with R. Bar-Lev Elieli) to: – Institutional Trauma: Case Studies of Museum Changes and Their Effects on Staff.” in Elaine Heumann Gurion (Ed.). American Association of Museums. 1996.

The Fifth Basic Assumption.” (with G. W. Lawrence and A. Bain). Free Associations. 1996. Volume 6. pp. 28-55.

Organizational Design in a Cross-Functional Team Environment: Integrating a Team Organization with Functional Departments.” in The Self-Managing Work Teams Newsletter. October 1994.

Contemporary Perspectives on Personal and Organizational Authority: The Self in a System of Work Relationships.” in Larry Hirschhorn and Carole K. Barnett (Eds.). The Psychodynamics of Organizations. Temple University Press. 1993.

Psychoanalytic Frameworks for Organizational Analysis and Consultation.” in Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (Ed.). Organizations on the Couch. Jossey-Bass. 1992.