Nothing clinical, just business? Reflections on psychoanalytically grounded organizational diagnosis and intervention

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-59

  Driver, Michaela ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non systemic interventions; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytically grounded organizational study and intervention; Wild analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037250128     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726703056001449     Document Type: Article

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