A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety
A Report on a Study of the Nursing Service of a General Hospital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7520126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabel E P Menzies (British Psycho-Analytical Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-121 |
| Publication date | 1960-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872676001300201 |
| OpenAlex | W2096685607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 239 |
| References cited | 11 |
Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Interpersonal relationship · Psychiatry · Social anxiety · Social functioning · Critical Realism in Sociology · Mental Health via Writing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias
The “generational argument” as a social defense against envy
Responsible leadership & organizational change meet the death drive
Alfred Lorenzer and the depth-hermeneutic method
Psychoanalytic Pure War
Bureaucracy, neoliberalism and perversion
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Institutional Life
Ordering differentiation
Intelligent Kindness
Psychology and Experience
Chapter Three
Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research
Communities of Difference
Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Clinicians into Management. The Experience in Context
Post-Lawrence Policing in England and Wales
The socio-politics of (Re)constructing home in a post-displacement context in rural Zimbabwe
Envy and Culture
Interpellation and group polarization
On Technology and the Ecology of Thinking
Personhood as projection
Discussion of Bakó, T. & Zana, K. “The Reality of Trauma; the Trauma of Reality”
Equity, empathy, and diagnostic competence
Can the courts be viewed as an appropriate vehicle to settle clinical unease
Helping us heal; how creative life story work supports individuals and organisations to recover from trauma
The social work team post-Covid
A good death
Relationships and reciprocity; where next for strengths-based social work in adult social care
Personalisation as contribution-focused social work practice
Toward an Ethics of Ambiguity in Critical Work and Organizational Psychology
Progress in Psychoanalysis
Reimagining agency
Power Dynamics in the Clinical Situation
Combining ethics and compliance
Professional identity transitions, violations and reconciliations among new nurses in low- and middle-income countries
Mourning lost parts
Algorithmic violence
Fateful moments and the categorisation of risk
A culture of mania
Why do public policies fail so often? Exploring health policy-making as an imaginary and symbolic construction
Work as affective experience
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies
Needs, creativity and care
Community analysis
Paradox in the Pursuit of a Critical Theorization of the Development of Self in Family Relationships
L’analyse des organisations
Commentary on Kernberg and Michels
For whom the bell tolls
Collaborative reading of medical records in psychotherapy
Leaving the Asylum
Psychotherapy and World Peace
Communities of Coping
Potential Sources of Moral Injury for Healthcare Workers in Forensic and Psychiatric Settings
Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”
The opening of doors in British mental hospitals in the 1950s
"Superblind"
Organization theory and the organization of health care
Organization theory and the organization of health care
Scapegoating in Healthcare
Psychoanalytic sociology and the medical encounter
Sociological perspectives on socialization into a profession
Sociology in UK nurse education curricula
O corpo na contemporaneidade
The Nonconscious at Work
Healthcare Management and the Humanities
Focus on the blind spots of clinician-patient interactions
Visualism in Community Nursing
Contesting Death, Speaking of Dying
Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding
The role of physical contact in childcare
Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Organizational Theory
The Ghost Matrix
On the Matrix, neuroscience and dialogue
The Group Analyst as Consultant to a Therapeutic Organization
X-treme Group Analysis
Sitting Close to Death
The Group Analyst as Consultant in a Social Services Setting
A Group within an Institution
Group Reactions in a Hospital Crisis Intervention Programme
The Organizational Mirror
Staff Envy of the Patients
Elderly Patients in `Continuing Care
Community Group Analysis
Projections, Where Do they Go
A Group-Analytic Approach in a Comprehensive School
A Transitional Therapeutic Community for Young, Violent Offenders
A Group Awaiting Death
The Healing of Historical Collective Trauma
Fantasies of revelation, revolution and management
The leaderlessness conundrum
Reflections from Practice
Couldn’t care less? A psychosocial analysis of contemporary cancer care policy as a case of borderline welfare
In search of a prerequisite for infant participation in pregnancy
The changing place of care and compassion within the English NHS
Public anxiety and health policy
Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life
Anxiety and organization
The Spaces of Personalisation
A Practical Theory of Public Planning
Diagnosis
Is “Good vibes only” really good? Investigating perceptions of toxic positivity on social media
Hospital Nursing Auxiliaries
A Consideration of Industrial Accidents as a Means of Withdrawal from the work situation
Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal-Getting
Reactions to Administrative Change
Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy
Productivity and Social Organization
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
Psychoanalytic theory of the neuroses
| Unique citing works | 239 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,68 |
| Citation span | 1961 - 2026 (66) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 232 |