Steven Rolfe, M.D. from the American Psychoanalytic Association, welcomes Dr. Edward Shapiro, who is a training and supervising analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and has been an organizational consultant for over 35 years. Dr. Shapiro has consulted with hospitals, mental health clinics, law firms and family businesses focusing on organizational transition, mergers, organizational structure and dilemmas of authority, management and delegation. He has coached executives in health care, law , education and business. He is the author of Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self Reflecting Institutions, Leaders and Citizens, and co-author of Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections Between the Individual and Society. Dr. Shapiro received the Felix and Helene Deutsch Scientific Award from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the Research Prize from the Society for Family Therapy and Research, and the Philip Isenberg Teaching Award from McLean Hospital.
[4:05] What stimulated Dr. Shapiro to write a book on citizenship?
[5:06] Interpreting society as an enormous challenge.
[6:14] Unconscious forces drive groups and organizations.
[8:38] Dr. Shapiro talks about his training as an analyst and consultant.
[12:03] Projective identification as crucial in the understanding of families and groups.
[14:05] Running the program at McLean Hospital.
[15:44] Austen Riggs.
[20:33] Transition from McLean to Austen Riggs.
[21:25] Organizations and society are interdependent.
[23:15] Working with limited resources .
[24:25] Patients as citizens of the Riggs community.
[25:48] The political aspect.
[27:10] Telling stories to make ideas accessible to people.
[32:50] Transference and the role of the analyst.
[34:07] Dr. Shapiro talks about his most recent book.
Shapiro, ER. (2020) Finding a Place to Stand: Developing Self-Reflective Institutions, Leaders and Citizens. London: Phoenix.
Shapiro ER. (2012) Management versus interpretation: teaching residents to listen. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2012, 200 (3): 204-207.
Shapiro ER. (2011) Psychoanalytic institutions and treatment resistance: Commentary on Kafka: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2011, 51: 71-79.
Shapiro E.R. editor (1997). The Inner World in the Outer World: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Shapiro, E.R. and Carr, A.W. (1991) Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New connections between the Individual and Society. New Haven:Yale University Press.
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