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Individual and collective suffering of organisational failures in containment: Searching for a model to explore protomental dynamics
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In this article, boundary phenomena in groups and organisations are explored using both literal experience and the
metaphor of skin that can be breached when shame or tact are lacking. One pathway researches how organisations
can contribute to psychosomatic group diseases associated with the failed containment of shameless aggression and
thus the failed creation of an internalised reliable container. A second pathway describes the emotional experience
of having and belonging to an organisation with its own skin. We define how rigid, impinging or lax containment
in organisations fail to meet the dependency needs of members making them vulnerable to group diseases.
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Group skin Group disease Failed containment Protomental Psychodermatology Shameless violations
Citation
Socio-Analysis, 12, 57-75