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\"Understanding experience at work especially in organizations that have toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics is a multidimensional undertaking that must include in-depth perspectives informed by psychosocial theory. This may be best accomplished by relying on complementary theories to account for what is found and experienced in our organizations and in particular a better understanding of why this is happening. \"Why did she do that?\" \"Why did he say that?\" \"Why did a group react the way they did?\" \"Why,\" is critical in terms of understanding organizational dynamics. Our lives at work in large complex and multidimensional organizations are saturated with experience, some of which is fulfilling, and some are of a darker nature that arises from the presence of toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics. Understanding these toxicities and dysfunctions and their effect on organization members is approached by first raising their awareness at the beginning of the book before providing psychosocially informed insights that form a basis for understanding and organizational change in the following sections. This book explores these work-life dynamics by grounding them in concrete examples and then using complementary psychoanalytically informed perspectives to illuminate their underlying, often unconscious nature filling an important gap in management and organizational literature\"-- Provided by publisher.

Purpose>This paper aims to demonstrate the value of combining the strategic planning process with psychoanalytically informed interpretation through an exploratory case study.Design/methodology/approach>The authors present their experiences and findings from a consulting engagement that began as a strategic planning assignment and soon evolved into an opportunity to explore unconscious forces inhibiting organizational change. The authors, trained in both areas, chose to infuse the two into a combined process that ultimately benefited the organization and suggested novel ways to think about the common process of strategic planning going forward.Findings>The organization's strategic planning process was considerably enhanced, and its outcomes sustained, by illuminating the unconscious forces at work, particularly as they pertain to issues of power and authority in a male organizational culture found to have a profound negative influence upon the quality of the work environment and employee morale. Findings suggest that without a psychoanalytically informed approach, strategic planning would have failed to produce sustainable change.Research limitations/implications>While the findings reported are from a single case study, the themes explored are likely shared across multiple organizations. There is, therefore, significant potential in combining strategic planning with a psychoanalytic approach to improve organizational effectiveness and employee morale.Originality/value>Although common in organizations, strategic planning is rarely augmented with psychoanalytic insights. This case study is the first of its kind to show how the two interventions may complement each other.

Insight into what happens during the balance of the current decade, including the problematic nature of the transfer of power at the end of Season 2.0, will be aided in this article by psychosocially informed perspectives into leadership and organizational dynamics. A BRIEF INSPECTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS NATURE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR Kets de Vries (2006, p.7) notes that \"The identification of cognitive and affective distortions in an organization's leaders and followers can help executives recognize the extent to which unconscious fantasies and out-ofawareness behavior affect decision-making and management practices in their organization.\" In these cases, those in opposition identify these leaders and their social and cultural values as a threat because they differ from the traditional unilateral top-down impositions of autocratic power and control (Stein & Allcorn, 2014). THE IMBALANCE BETWEEN TOXIC BEHAVIOR AND REASONABLE FAIR-MINDED BEHAVIOR Practicing the values of being open, inclusive, collaborative, transparent, respectful, and trusting increases one's vulnerability to others who practice behaviors such as withholding and manipulating information and resources including energized backstabbing and interpersonal aggression in meetings and elsewhere (Allcorn, 2024a).

Immigration is, for example, experienced as a loss of white power and social supremacy, and this has created strong emotional bonds based on anxiety, fear, and anger creating what has become an ever-present threat Trump and Magaworld with its ever-increasing polarizing alternate universe of news, entertainment and alternate facts, presents Americans and the citizens of the world the specter of an under controlled if not out of control chaotic psychosocial reality that promises to be a trans dimensional event. Paxton (2004, p. 218) defines fascism: as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. . * There is a shared recognition that accepting the authority of an individual (usually a male) who symbolizes the group's historical identity and destiny is essential (Trump as cult-like leader who demands loyalty). * This leader's superior instincts rule over laws, customs, and universal reason (\"Only I can save you,\" Trump said.). * There is an acceptance of violence and the efficacy of will for fulfilling the group's destiny (over eighty lawsuits filed to contest election results, the effort to replace electors, and the demand that Vice President Pence not certify the electoral votes). * These \"chosen people\" have the moral, ethical, and religious right to dominate over others without restraint, supported by the belief that the sole criterion is dominating within a context of a Darwinian struggle (restricting women's access to reproductive healthcare and the rise of Christian Nationalism). Dixon (2024) provides a list of these actions. * \"Forging an ultraconservative, puritanical society mobilized against liberal freedoms and especially hostile to gay and transgender people, in which family policy and social welfare spending boost traditional Orthodox values. * Reshaping education at all levels to indoctrinate a new generation of turbo-patriot youth, with textbooks rewritten to reflect Kremlin propaganda, patriotic curriculums set by the state and, from September, compulsory military lessons taught by soldiers called 'Basics of Security and Protection of the Motherland,' which will include training on handling Kalashnikov assault rifles, grenades and drones. * Sterilizing cultural life with blacklists of liberal or antiwar performers, directors, writers and artists, and with new nationalistic mandates for museums and filmmakers. * Mobilizing zealous pro-war activism under the brutal Z symbol, which was initially painted on the side of Russian tanks invading Ukraine but has since spread to government buildings, posters, schools, and orchestrated demonstrations. * Rolling back women's rights with a torrent of propaganda about the need to give birth-young and often-and by curbing ease of access to abortions and charging feminist activists and liberal female journalists with terrorism, extremism, discrediting the military and other offenses. * Rewriting history to celebrate Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who sent millions to the gulag, through at least 95 of the 110 monuments in Russia erected during Putin's time as leader.

[...]American journalists, who shared a strong belief in reporting \"what's going on\" neutrally, by which they usually mean without assigning value or providing more than the immediate context, were ill-equipped to problematize the normalization of what had indeed become the norm. Trump repeats his false statements after they have been fact-checked by the media and, in many cases, contradicted by officials in his own administration-and it is this repetition that gives Trumpian lies much of their power. American journalists have been trained to take no position and just report the \"facts.\" [...]Trump is not a totalitarian leader who rules by terror, and the late-night jokes don't expose the ridiculousness that hides beneath a veneer of strength and power: Jennifer Freyd, now professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon developed the theory over her career studying sexual assault, trauma, and institutional betrayal.

Why would the oligarchs, the ultimate puppet masters of civilization, want to have their power and control and global influences revealed for public inspection? A statement recently made by Bernie Sanders underscores the relevance of understanding American oligarchs. President Jimmy Carter stated in 2014 that the United States is now an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery due to the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision, which effectively removed limits on donations to political candidates by wealthy individual and organizations (Kreps, 2015). Recent U.S. examples are reducing taxation and limiting government regulation which used to limit but now permits giving leases to corporations to plunder the public domain's natural resources such as fossil fuels and grazing lands. The Southern oligarchy, following the Civil War, began to promote their interests by appealing to individualism to protect their political and economic purgatives after losing their control over national, state, and local governments.

The quantum state of a group of particles cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by distance. The Organizers This list highlights the obvious that is always present but frequently overlooked, misunderstood, or denied. * Me-as self-aware, self-conceived and self-experienced. * You in Me-as awareness of what others infer about me or place within me that influences my self-awareness and experience. * You-as one's mindful self-conception of others that is expressed in the interpersonal world, who you are to me. * Me in You-as awareness of what is familiar in another person or group where elements of self are identified in the others influencing the \"others\" self-experience. * Us and Not Us-as a binary world experience that is often split into good versus bad. * In mind versus in Other-the manipulation of others in one's mind must also be compared to our experience of others as though they embody our mindful manipulations-the mindful manipulations leak out into the interpersonal world. * Past, Present, Future-as in the sense of a collapse of time where past experience is present (transference) in the moment including the fantasized future creating an entangled fusion of past and future in the here and now. INTERSUBJECTIVELY ENTANGLED PSYCHOANALYTICTHEORY Jill Sharff (1992) has provided a thorough historical overview and analysis of the development of psychoanalytic theorizing and its use in practice. In therapy concordant identification arises when the therapist identifies or empathizes with a projected part of the patient's self-experience (countertransference) and complementary identification arises when the therapist identifies with a projected part of the patient's object (mother is an example) where feelings of neglect by the mother are projected onto and induced into the analyst who feels perhaps guilt for being a neglectful mother or other parental figure (another form of countertransference) (Racker, 1957).

The natural world around us including our interpersonal and organizational worlds is universally subjected to a form of perception and thinking, that by its nature distorts our ability to make sense of our experience. The question of the underlying origin of splitting asa psychological defense against anxiety generated by threatening \"not us or me\" binary lived experience and thought suggests one way to understand the boundary between the good andbad implicit in defensive splittingresides in a more fundamental cognitive dynamic that is polarizing and lacking a middle \"position\" anchored at either end of a range by the product of the good/bad splitting. PROVISO Resident in the notion of binary self-experience that contributes to if not forms the basis of fear and threat (not me or us) that leads to \"signal\" anxiety and psychological defensiveness is the ever-present temptation to reduce these dynamics to a single factor of analysis. A theory of everything or a single explanation of the cosmos is the gold standard for physicists who study the very large and the very small.

The organizational concept of \"backward engineering\" is used as a hermeneutic device to illuminate processes that were employed to implement the Holocaust. Here we study how rationality can be used in the service of irrationality. In particular, rationalized, engineered and bureaucratically organized inputs, throughputs, and outputs contain unconscious processes embodied in the engineering of atrocity. The process of the \"conversion\" of experiencing subjects into disposable objects is examined. Finally, the psychodynamics of the inability to look backward and take apart the vast supply chain leading to the actual killing are examined. An understanding of organizational psychodynamics contributes to the psychohistorical study of atrocity on a vast scale.