R.D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK.

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With close attention to Wilfred Bion's influence on the literature about groups and organisations, this book explores how containment has been transposed from the clinical setting to enlighten the work being carried out by psychodynamic practitioners and researchers, especially within organisations.

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Foreword by Louisa Diana Brunner Introduction Part One: Conceptual Origins and (Dis)Entanglements: Even Ideas Have Origins 1. The Antecedents and Development of Container-Contained 2. Emotional Containment and Emotional Regulation 3. On Containment and HoldingA Short Introductory Note Part Two: Psychoanalysis Beyond the Couch 4. The Early Days of the Tavistock Institute 5. Researching the Unconscious in Organisations 6. Operationalisation of Concepts in Psychoanalytic Research 7. Cultural Differences Between Groups Part Three: Applications 8. If Only We Could Contain Emotions: A Contribution to an Overview of the Application of Containment to Organisations 9. An Empirical Approach to Disentangle Intertwined Concepts 10. Organisational Research and Consulting and the Idea of Containment 11. Dancing Between the Contained and the Container and their Reciprocal Relatedness in Group Relations 12. Leadership and Containment 13. Father, Mother and the Guinea Pig Children 14. The Challenge of Containment: A Psychoanalytic-Systemic Approach