The International
Society for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations
2006 Symposium
The Dark Side of Competition - Psychoanalytic Insights
Amsterdam/Haarleem,
the Netherlands
June 19-25, 2006
Program
Friday June 23, 2006
08.15-09.15 Social Dreaming Matrix
09.30-10.00 Welcome and Introduction:
Burkard Sievers, ISPSO President
Jeroen Muller, Symposium Chair 2006
10.00-11.15 Plenary Presentation
Competition in a Global Setting
Manfred Kets de Vries (France)
Moderator: Lilian Hupkens (Netherlands)
11.45-13.00 Parallel Papers
Modern Madness
Adrian Carr and Cheryl Lapp (Australia/Canada)
Moderator: Judith Levy (Israel)
The Reciprocal Rivalry between Consultant and
Manager
André Schönberg (Israel)
Moderator: Clare Huffington (UK)
The Goma Club: Competition and Envy in
Humanitarian Aid
Barb Wigley (Australia)
Moderator: Jim Krantz (USA)
Competition, Rivalry and Envy at the Workplace
Bénédicte Vidaillet (France)
Moderator: Kris Johnson (USA)
Not Born to Compete
Francesca Cardona (UK)
Moderator: Werner Forster (Switzerland)
14.30-15.45 Plenary Presentation
The Dark Side Within – Competitiveness as Internalized
Aggression
John Stokes and Richard Jolly (UK)
Moderator: Paula Singer (USA)
16.15-17.30 Parallel Papers
It’s a Dog Eat Dog World out There: Competition,
Collaboration and Consulting
Brigid Nossal (Australia)
Moderator: Thomas Hoffman (USA)
Mergers & Acquisitions: Interpersonal Fantasies that
Hinder Successful Management Team Integration
James Krantz and Johnathan Smilansky (USA/UK)
Moderator: Under discussion
Competition: Some Reflections on its Archetypical
Roots and its Effects on Today’s Organizations
Hans van den Hooff (Netherlands)
Moderator: Heiner Kottman (Germany)
Competition in Modern-Day Mexicans
Gabriela Fernandez and Geraldine Calvo Z. (Mexico)
Moderator: Carlos Sapochnik (UK)
Competition and the Tropism in Systems
Gordon Lawrence (UK)
Moderator: John Newton (Australia)
Closure of the Day
Moderator: Mannie Sher (UK)
Saturday June 24, 2006
08.15-09.15 Social Dreaming Matrix
09.30-10.45 Parallel Papers
Means of Survival: Escaping from Reality into Worlds
of Desire
Claus Hohmann (Germany)
Moderator: Silvia Prins (Belgium)
Competition and the Search for Self: Implications for
Organizational Life
David Levine (USA)
Moderator: Karien van Lohuizen (Netherlands)
Globalisation: The Social and Political Consequences of
Competition
Lionel Stapley (UK)
Moderator: Jutta Schultes (Germany)
The Instinctual Dimension of Work Re-Examined:
Sublimation, Self-Preservation, Mastery and the Drive
toward Perfection
Gilles Arnaud and Roland Guichard (France)
Moderator: Philip Boxer (UK)
When Disaster Strikes: The Impact on Involved
Organisations, Groups and Individuals Following a
Train Accident
Renate Gronvold Bugge (Norway)
Moderator: John Scheenen (Netherlands)
11.15-12.30 Plenary Presentation
Doctors – Death by Degrees
Alan Sandford and Glenda McLean (Australia)
Moderator: Hüseyin Özdemir (Germany)
14.00-15.15 Parallel Papers
Born into Competition: Negotiating Succession in the
Family Firm
Debbie Bing (USA)
Moderator: Jarl Rastrand (Sweden)
Daring to Desire: Ambition and Competition in ‘Idealistic’ Organisations
Vega Roberts and John Bazalgette (UK)
Moderator: R. Bonnie Haber (USA)
Beyond the Competition: Excellence
Stéphanie Palazzi (France)
Moderator: Halina Brunning (UK)
South African Diversity Dynamics: The Competition
for Survival
Frans Cilliers and Michelle May (South Africa)
Moderator: Elisabet Engellau-Kets de Vries (France)
Co-Opetition: The Boundary between Competition and
Cooperation
Murray Gordon (USA)
Moderator: Janet Fitzell (Australia)
15.45-17.00 Parallel Papers
Competition and Coherence: Creating a New Balance
Between Economic Change and Social Identity in
Health Care Organizations
Mathias Lohmer (Germany)
Moderator: Donna Lofgren (USA)
On Establishing a New Institute – Conscious and
Unconscious Processes
Avia Berman and Gila Ofer (Israel)
Moderator: Jan Baker (UK)
Competition: The Source of Life
Paul Munyon (USA)
Moderator: Vasheehar H.A. Razack (Malaysia)
Competition – A Multi-Level Phenomenon
Robert Abraham and Erik van de Loo (Netherlands)
Moderator: Gaby Braun (UK)
The Voice of the Reasonable Man: A Reflection on
Leadership as a Masculine Paradigm
Hannah Piterman (Australia)
Moderator: Elisabeth Henderson (UK)
Closure of the Day
Moderator: Kathy Pogue White (USA)
Sunday June 25, 2006
08.15-09.15 Social Dreaming Matrix
09.30-10.45 Plenary Presentation
Organizations and their Discontents - Toward a Theory of Organizational Miasma
(Abstract)
Organizations and their Discontents - Toward a Theory of Organizational Miasma
(Complete slide presentation)
Yiannis Gabriel (UK)
Moderator: Larry Hirschorn (USA)
11.15-12.30 Parallel Papers (6):
The Dark Side of Lack of Market Competition:
Dynamics in Foundations
Thomas N. Gilmore and Kathleen Feely (USA)
Moderator: Miranda Alcock (UK)
A Kleinian Analysis of Organisations – Implications
for Competitive Activity
John McManus (UK)
Moderator: Martijne Rensen (Netherlands)
Has the Dark Side Obscured the Light? A Look at
Bion’s Ideas on Groups
Robert French and Peter Simpson (UK)
Moderator: Christine Kuenzle (Switzerland)
Succession – A Process Involving Constructive and
Destructive Competition
Siv Boalt Boëthius (Sweden)
Moderator: Carole Eigen (UK)
Competition, Stress and Subjectivation
Laurent Chaine (France)
Moderator: Eliat Aram (UK)
Closing of the Symposium
Burkard Sievers, ISPSO President
Invitation to the Annual Meeting in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden
Siv Boalt Boëthius, Symposium Chair 2007