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1 online resource (177 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Attention; CHAPTER TWO Distraction; CHAPTER THREE Truth; CHAPTER FOUR Cooperation; CHAPTER FIVE Purpose; CHAPTER SIX Forms of interaction; CHAPTER SEVEN Learning the work of attention; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, ""every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something."" The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or ""evenly suspended"" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for them to do what they have met to do. This work of attention enables group membe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Teams in the workplace -- Psychological aspects.
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Teams in the workplace -- Psychological aspects. |
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Teams in the workplace. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Simpson, Peter (Associate Professor)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: French, Robert Attention, Cooperation, Purpose : An Approach to Groups Using Insights from the Work of Bion London : Karnac Books,c2014 9781782201311 |
| ISBN |
9781782412809 electronic book |
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1782412808 electronic book |
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9781782201311 |
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1782201319 |
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