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Book Review The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 66, No. 4, December 2006 ( 2006) DOI: 10.1007/s11231-006-9036-0 Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations, and Organizational Consultancy, by David Armstrong, Karnac Books, London, 2005, 167 pp. The world of psychoanalysis would be much improved if its inhabitants more frequently emulated the flexible activity of its founder’s mind. Freud’s openness to new ideas arising in divergent fields and his willingness to reformulate his thoughts as they developed are qualities not easy to maintain within an existing academic or professional discipline. David Armstrong is a Freudian thinker in this sense. He is also a close reader of Wilfred Bion, who had some ideas about why thinking is so uncommon. ‘‘Learning from experience’’ can be excruciatingly diffi- cult, because new experience can disrupt what we are comfortable thinking we know already, and therefore, according to Bion, we hate it. David Armstrong emphasizes (as he exemplifies) the other side, the fact that we are driven, or ‘‘hopelessly committed’’ (p. 144), to learning, even as we hate it. Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations, and Organizational Consultancy is a collection of Armstrong’s papers written over the course of 15 years, during which time he worked http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Book Review

Parish, Margaret
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 66 (4) – Nov 21, 2006
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Copyright © 2006 by Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1007/s11231-006-9036-0
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 66, No. 4, December 2006 ( 2006) DOI: 10.1007/s11231-006-9036-0 Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations, and Organizational Consultancy, by David Armstrong, Karnac Books, London, 2005, 167 pp. The world of psychoanalysis would be much improved if its inhabitants more frequently emulated the flexible activity of its founder’s mind. Freud’s openness to new ideas arising in divergent fields and his willingness to reformulate his thoughts as they developed are qualities not easy to maintain within an existing academic or professional discipline. David Armstrong is a Freudian thinker in this sense. He is also a close reader of Wilfred Bion, who had some ideas about why thinking is so uncommon. ‘‘Learning from experience’’ can be excruciatingly diffi- cult, because new experience can disrupt what we are comfortable thinking we know already, and therefore, according to Bion, we hate it. David Armstrong emphasizes (as he exemplifies) the other side, the fact that we are driven, or ‘‘hopelessly committed’’ (p. 144), to learning, even as we hate it. Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations, and Organizational Consultancy is a collection of Armstrong’s papers written over the course of 15 years, during which time he worked

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