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Author:   Howard F. Stein
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9780761837442

ISBN 10:   0761837442
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   30 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Countertransference and Organizational Knowing: Understanding from the Inside as Well as the Outside Chapter 4 ""The Centre and Circumference of Knowledge:"" The Use of Poetry as a Tool of Countertransference in Organizational Knowing and Consulting Chapter 5 Uncovering an Organizational Conference's Hidden Agendas Chapter 6 Red Herrings in the Workplace: On Not Solving the Wrong Problem Chapter 7 Learning How to Help: An Applied Anthropologist's Role in Massive Organizational Change Chapter 8 The Role of our Words in the Masking and Unmasking of Organizational Experience Chapter 9 Trusting the Journey: The Narrative History of an Organizational Consultation Chapter 10 Letting Go of Who We Were: The Triad of Change-Loss-Grief in Organizational and Wider Cultural Life Chapter 11 The Dangers of Not Reflecting on What We Are Doing in Workplaces Chapter 12 The Inner World of Workplaces: Learning about Real World Workplaces through Art Chapter 13 Ways of Knowing in Medicine and Other Worlds of Work: Objectivized Seeing and Beyond Chapter 14 The Consultant's Story as Conduit to the Client and Organization's Story: Fiction as Guide to Organizational Reality Chapter 15 Summary, Conclusions: A Documentary Play"

Reviews

Stein in Insight and Imagination intersperses his thoughtful and reflective discussion of the psychological nature of the workplace with poems...this much needed, playful but yet intensely thoughtful book makes an important contribution to the discussion of knowing and not knowing of the workplace for what it is...I recommend this book to anyone seeking to more thoroughly understand one's experiences at work. -- Dr. Seth Allcorn, Texas Tech . . . a book that demands the reader's full attention, promising to reward it with an insightful and imaginative approach. . . -- Richard V. Badalamente * The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008 * Howard Stein's new book, Insight and Imagination: A Study in Knowing and Not-knowing in Organizational Life, is an important book. I believe it can have a profound impact on the many practicing anthropologists working with, and more commonly, within organizations. I sense it is going to have a profound impact on my own professional developmentttt -- Darby C. Stapp * The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008 * Stein takes an innovative approach, drawing from over thirty years of personal experience as a psychoanalytic anthropologist and organizational consultant. He crafts an engaging, exhilarating, and often depressing narrative of the pitfalls surrounding organizational change. . . . By providing a window into the emotional center of organizational life and culture through the use of artistic means, Stein manages to create an anthropological set piece that is at once instructive, challenging, and rewarding. -- Satish K. Kedia, Ph. D., University of Kentucky * The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008 * Howard Stein's new book, Insight and Imagination: A Study in Knowing and Not-knowing in Organizational Life, is an important book. I believe it can have a profound impact on the many practicing anthropologists working with, and more commonly, within organizations. I sense it is going to have a profound impact on my own professional development -- Darby C. Stapp * The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008 *

Stein in Insight and Imagination intersperses his thoughtful and reflective discussion of the psychological nature of the workplace with poems...this much needed, playful but yet intensely thoughtful book makes an important contribution to the discussion of knowing and not knowing of the workplace for what it is...I recommend this book to anyone seeking to more thoroughly understand one's experiences at work.--Dr. Seth Allcorn

Howard Stein's new book, Insight and Imagination: A Study in Knowing and Not-knowing in Organizational Life, is an important book. I believe it can have a profound impact on the many practicing anthropologists working with, and more commonly, within organizations. I sense it is going to have a profound impact on my own professional development--Darby C. Stapp The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008

Author Information

Howard F. Stein, Ph.D., a psychoanalytic anthropologist, organizational consultant, and poet, is Professor of Family Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he has taught for thirty years. He is a long-time member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. Professor Stein is author of twenty-five books, the most recent of which is Beneath the Crust of Culture (2005). In late 2006, he was nominated for Oklahoma Poet Laureate.

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