Love and Loneliness at Work offers an accessible and practical starting point for understanding the connections between emotions, individual working life and organizations, focusing on love and loneliness. The book begins with an engaging chapter-length case study that illuminates the themes discussed. Taking a psychodynamic perspective, Bonnerup and Hasselager examine love and how it influences our feelings about tasks, organizations and participation.
Key Features
- Explores loneliness as an inner state of mind, a professional role aspect, and a group dynamic experience.
- Assesses the psychological burden of feeling lonely in an organization.
- Provides an overview of key theoretical concepts, including the unconscious, anxiety, libido, projective processes, and the concepts of inner and outer self.
- Equips readers with tools to examine, understand, and work with the emotional strength and vulnerability of an organization.
- Unique insights into how understanding these feelings can contribute to healthier and happier workplaces.
Additional Information
This book will be an essential guide for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders and managers, human resources (HR) and learning and development (L&D) professionals, and consultants within organizations seeking to expand their understanding of organizational dynamics. With its strong theoretical base, it will also be of interest to academics and students of coaching, coaching psychology, psychodynamic consulting, organizational psychology, leadership and management, and organizational change, and to anyone seeking an insight into the emotional dynamics of working life.
