Being a Systems Psychodynamic Scholar

Frans Cilliers

Description

Hierdie reeks van 4 historiese boeke deur P.J. van der Merwe herleef weer deur middel van digitale druk-tegnologie. Die oorpronklike boeke is geskandeer en is nou beskikbaar in druk- en PDFformaat, as 'n stel of individueel.Die ander boeke in die reeks is Die Noordwaartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek (1770'1842) en TREK - Studies oor die Mobiliteit van die Pioniersbevolking aan die Kaap (1770'1842).

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Psychology
• Educational psychology

Informations

• Publié par: African Sun Media
• Date de parution: 13 décembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928314646
• Langue: English

Extrait

An exploration of the unconscious mind below the surface

Being a

Systems

psychodynamic

Scholar







compiled by
Sanchen Henning





Being a Systems Pyscohdynamic Scholar
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Table of Contents
Dedication ix
Introduction xi
Theme 1 | Systems Psychodynamics in Leadership coaching
Article 1
Executive Coaching Experiences: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective 3
F Cilliers
Article 2
Leader and Team Behaviour during Organisational Change: A Systems Psychodynamic Stance 23
F Cilliers
Article 3
The Systems Psychodynamic Leadership Coaching Experiences of Nursing Managers . 47
F Cilliers & L Terblanche
Article 4
The Experienced Impact of Systems Psychodynamic Leadership Coaching Amongst Professionals in a Financial Services Organisation 71
F Cilliers
Article 5
Leadership Coaching Experiences of Clients with Alexithymia 95
F Cilliers
Article 6
The Robben Island Diversity Experience: An Exploration of South African Diversity Dynamics 121 M Pretorius, F Cilliers & M May
Article 7
Social Defence Structures in Organisations: How a Lack of Authorisation Keeps Managers from Moving to Transformational Leadership 141
R van Eeden & F Cilliers
Theme 2 | Systems Psychodynamics in Postgraduate Academic Work
Article 1
Understanding Implicit Texts in Focus Groups from a Systems Psychodynamic Perspective 167
B Smit & F Cilliers
Article 2
Present Challenges and Some Critical Issues for Research in Industrial/Organisational Psychology in South Africa 185
S Rothmann & F Cilliers
Article 3
The Systems Psychodynamic Role Identity of Academic Research Supervisors 213
F Cilliers
Article 4
The Psychological Well-Being Manifesting Among Master’s Students in Industrial and Organisational Psychology 237
F Cilliers & A Flotman
Article 5
The Systems Psychodynamic Experiences of First-Year Master’s Students in Industrial and Organisational Psychology 265
F Cilliers & N Harry
Theme 3 | Systems Psychodynamics in Team Formation
Article 1
Team Building from a Psychodynamic Perspective 291
F Cilliers
Article 2
The Impact of Silo Mentality on Team Identity: An Organisational Case Study 309
F Cilliers & H Greyvenstein
Article 3
Working with Boundaries in Systems Psychodynamic Consulting 333
H Struwig & F Cilliers
Article 4
The Role of Sense of Coherence in Group Relations Training 359
F Cilliers
Theme 4 | Systems psychodynamics and Organisational Wellness
Article 1
The Role of Spirituality in Coping with the Demands of the Hospital Culture Amongst Fourth-Year Nursing Students 377
F Cilliers and L Terblanche
Article 2
Constructing a Systems Psychodynamic Wellness Model 399
S Henning & F Cilliers
Article 3
A Systems Psychodynamic Description of Organisational Bullying Experiences 421
F Cilliers
Article 4
A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective on Burnout 447
F Cilliers
Curriculum Vitae of F Cilliers 467

I dedicate my work to my parents, Dr Dawie and Mrs Marie Cilliers of Potchefstroom. They have provided me and my siblings with an emotionally well-contained childhood where self and academic development were always encouraged. Thank you to my older brother, Professor Charl Cilliers of Pretoria, and my younger sister, Professor Landa Terblanche of Vancouver, Canada, for their love and support through the years.
Thank you to my former academic colleagues at the Potchefstroom University for their profound impact on my development as a student and a lecturer early in my academic career. Hereafter, I spent 30 years of quality academic time at UNISA with many colleagues, working on various tasks and projects. Thank you for supporting and respecting my tuition and research interests. I especially learned a lot in working with those colleagues with whom I could join in the systems psychodynamic quest to study and understand the depth psychology of organisations and consulting.
My gratitude goes to my friends, Prof Sanchen Henning, Wilma Pienaar, Johan Venter and my sister, Prof Landa Terblanche, for their initiative, contributions and hard work in bringing this Festschrift to life.
Frans Cilliers
November 2019

Dedication

I see my role in being a systems psychodynamic scholar as consisting of three interdependent parts – (1) an academic involved in research and teaching in and supervision of research projects, (2) a psychologist consulting to organisations on complex and unconscious human behavioural matters, and (3) as a human being intrigued by my own unconscious.
My formal academic training comprised the traditional industrial and organisational psychology content, mostly informed by humanistic thinking and quantitative research methodology. My doctorate degree focussed on self-actualisation and ‘sensitive relationship forming’ based on the work of Dr Carl Rogers and others. I attended many international person-centred psychology training and growth events which provided very meaningful learning opportunities about myself.
The application of my person-centred knowledge made me realise that, although I may experience high levels of self-development, I do not have the vocabulary or the insight to understand and explain complex, dynamic and below the surface organisational and systemic psychological behaviour. I redirected my academic training and research focus towards becoming a systems psychodynamically informed academic, researcher and consultant. This enriched my work and personal life tremendously towards realising, for example, the importance of psychobiography in the understanding of the self and the other, the unconscious positioning of the self and being positioned, the interplay between relationships and relatedness, the-self-and-the-world-in-the-mind as a point of departure in studying organisational behaviour, the importance of using myself as a psychological instrument and to listen without memory, desire and judgement.
My journey towards becoming a systems psychodynamic instrument, was supported by UNISA as my employer for 30 years. I made use of the available resources such as academic freedom, time, grants to attend international training events and conferences. Systems psychodynamics became my preferred field of focus. As staff, we could include systems psychodynamics into the curricula of master’s and doctorate students. Many Masters and Doctoral students chose systems psychodynamics as their research focus. I am grateful towards them for allowing me many insights into this field and into myself as instrument in supervision.
The included articles in this Festschrift represents a selection of what kept me academically and personally occupied over years. I thank those psychology colleagues with whom I could co-publish to hopefully add to our collective systems psychodynamic knowledge, insight and competence.

Introduction


Theme 1 | Systems Psychodynamics in Leadership Coaching

Abstract 1
The Integrated Executive Experiential Learning Coaching model was applied in an information technology organisation. The aim of the research was to analyse and interpret the experiences of seven executives in the form of written essays from the systems psychodynamic perspective. The manifesting themes were, experiential learning facilitates the working through of defences; interdependency facilitates taking responsibility for the self; flight reactions inhibit owning and learning; transcending defences is needed to authorise the self in role; the difficulty of moving from the paranoid-schizoid to the depressive position and valuing all parts of the self; and containment facilitates self-authorisation. Recommendations towards more effective executive coaching are presented.
The post-modern work environment is associated with various new constructs such as the new economy, globalisation, change, transformation, diversity management, mergers, acquisitions, increased competition and complexity (Clutterbuck, 2003). These constructs facilitate heightened levels of anxiety because of changes in the nature of psychological boundaries within and between systems (individual, teams, organisation), and the demand to take up multiple (especially leadershi