Only to connect: Systems psychodynamics and communicative space  

Oleh:

Newton, John ; Goodman, Helen

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Action Research vol. 7 no. 3 (Sep. 2009), page 291–312.
Topik: Affective Experience; Holding Environment; Systems Psychodynamics
Fulltext: 03. Only to connect - Systems psychodynamics and communicative space.pdf (155.77KB)

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This article provides an example of the contribution a systems psychodynamic approach can make to action research. Drawing from a case study of a complex inter-organizational project, the authors argue that the concept of ‘communicative space’ requires consideration of affectivity, and the holding of an emotional space for people to connect symbiotically with each other. The case material illustrates how system pressures were having the opposite effect on stakeholders – shrinking their involvement, displacing feelings into silent resentment and ‘closing down’ communication so that interpersonal relations were shallow. The article shows how the heedful use of systems psychodynamic theory can help the action researcher create an emotional disposition which itself then supports the emergence of communicative space. The mutuality generated using this approach becomes the medium through which the parties can explore the system they are seeking to understand and, in so doing, create the human links on which system functionality depends.

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