Introduction and explanation

In October 2009 a new activity for members of ISPSO was announced, the Research Inventory Project.  This project has been approved by the Board and a liaison is in place to make sure it will be coordinated into the Literature Sharing design. Responsible for this initiative is Lilian Hupkens, who conducted the survey and provided this overview
For a complete report including abstracts (Updated September 2010) click here.

There are three categories:

1st Category, Finished Dissertations and Theses
2nd Category: Work in Progress, Doctoral Dissertation in progress
3rd Category: Work in Progress, research not linked to academic title

The aims of the Research Inventory Project are
- to have a better overview of research that has been done by ISPSO members
- to make the research accessible and available to the members
- to have a better overview of "work in progress", who is doing what in which country and      which part of the world
- to promote the ISPSO body of knowledge
- to stimulate new research being undertaken
- to support those with “work in progress”  by providing peer support.

This overview will be updated regularly and will be maintained by Lilian Hupkens till the end of 2011. If you would like to add your research, academic or non-academic, send an email to Hupkensconsult@cs.com and you will receive the questionnaire.

ISPSO Inventory of Research, July 2010

1. Finished Dissertations and Theses:

1987 - LONG, Susan
Melbourne,Australia
A Structural Analysis of Small Groups

1987 - RECINIELLO, Shelley
New York, New York, USA
Toward an Understanding of the Performing Artist: A Study of Actors and Dancers

1992 - AXELBANK, Jeffrey H.
Highland Park, New Jersey, USA
An Organizational Consultation and Proposed Intervention for Preventing Burnout in a Staff of a Community Residence

1995 - STEIN, Mark
London, UK
Envy and related unconscious phenomena in groups within organizations

1999 - NEWTON, John
Melbourne, Australia
Learning from the Experience in Management Education: A Psychodynamic Perspective

2000 - WEINER, Mark Weiner Psy.D.
Raritan, NJ, USA
Understanding the Embedded Intergroup Relations of an Inner City Catholic High School: Learning from Student and Faculty Leaders

2002 - FRAHER, Amy L.
San Diego, USA
The Development of the Tavistock and Tavistock-inspired Group Relations Movement in Great Britain and the United States: A Comparative and Historical perspective.

2002 - OGLENSKY, Bonnie D. Ph.D.
New York, NY, USA
Bittersweet Attachments: The Bonds and Binds of Mentorship

2002 - de SWARTE, Thibault
Rennes, France
From management catching up to organisational psychoanalysis: the case of telecommunications systems and operators

2003 - SANFUENTES A, Matías
Santiago, Chile
Regression and Group Psychotherapy: Observing the Effect of the Group-as-a-Whole Interpretation on the Group Members’ thinking

2004 - GELEI, András
Budapest ,Hungary
An Interpretive Approach to Organizational Learning: The Case of Organization Development

2005 - WESTERN, Simon
London, UK
A Critical Analysis of Leadership: How Fundamentalist Tendencies Can Be Overcome

2005 - CRAWSHAW, Laura, Ph.D.
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Coaching Abrasive Executives: Exploring The Use Of Empathy In Constructing Less Destructive Interpersonal Management Strategies

2006 - DEMPSEY, Kate
Melbourne, Australia
Values in Leadership: Approaches of Victorian Local Government Managers

2007 - NEUSTADT, Elizabeth
London,UK
Attachment at Work: Its Construct, Discriminant, and Predictive Validity

2007 - WHITE, Sheila
Kendal, Cumbria, UK
A Psychodynamic Perspective of Workplace Bullying Scenarios

2007 - RAMVI, Ellen
Stavanger, Norway
Learning from experience? A psychoanalytic perspective on teachers’ learning.

2007 - NOSSAL, Brigid
Melbourne, Australia
Systems Psychodynamics and Consulting to Organisations in Australia

2009 - FITZELL, Janet
Melbourne, Australia
The System Psychodynamics of E-mail: a Case Study

2. Work in Progress, unfinished Dissertations and Theses

BEUMER, Ullrich
Cologne/Germany
Eminent Leadership and Generativity – Experiences in the transitional period from the role of leader to the role of a consultant in the later period of professional life

BRUNNER, Louisa Diana
Milan, Italy
Crisis Management in Family Business: a Psycho-Social Perspective.

CLANCY, Annette
Dublin, Ireland
The Organization of Disappointment

COMERFORD, Hebe Marie
United Kingdom
The Nature and Location of the Contemporary Group Unconscious under the Impact of New Public Management, Audit and Governance

HUMPRHREYS, Joy
Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
Engaging stakeholders to create effective change

KAHLE, Evi
San Francisco, CA, USA
Relatedness with self and others in organizational leadership

LUCEY, Aideen
London, UK
Containment in Contemporary Organisations

ÖZDEMIR, Hüseyin
Erftstadt-Liblar (Cologne), Germany
International Organisational Development - A Case Research

SAPOCHNIK, Carlos
London, United Kingdom
The social construction of creativity: Ritual and play in architectural design teams

3. Work in Progress: Indepent research not linked to academic title

ACUNA, Eduardo & SANFUENTES, Matías
Santiago, Chile
1. Evaluation of the effectiveness of Organizational Role Analysis Method to reduce the level of Burnout in a Geriatric Hospital’s Multidisciplinary Health Team.
2. A Socio-Analytic Study of the National Geriatric Institute History: A Socio Historic search for the institutional roots of a forgotten hospital

BURGESS, Mary
Melbourne, Australia
Social defences in disability service systems

EDEN, Angela
London, UK
Working in the cracks; the consultant’s dilemma

KAUFMANN, Alicia
Madrid, Spain
1. Career development of women in the banking business/ (barriers).
2. Talent life cycle and elite sportsman and sportswoman.

MALTZ, Marc
New York, New York, USA
Organizational Resilience—Sandler O’Neill Ten Years after 9/11

RECINIELLO, Shelley
New York, New York, USA
Executive Women and Power

ROTH, Jeffrey D. MD
Chicago, Illinois 60602, USA
Subject # 1. Analysis of On Line Al-Anon Meetings
Subject # 2. Impact of Freud’s Addiction on the Development of Psychoanalysis
Subject # 3. Analysis of Virtual Large Study Group

SEGAL, Stephanie
UK, London
Attitudes to Difference in the Workplace with a specific emphasis On Race, Religion and Gender