Work and Love: A Frame of Reference for Personal Counselling of Managers

Deals with the manager and the organization from the point of view of personal counselling of managers. Sharpens the different perspectives from which organizational counsellors may view the work of counselling, perspectives that are apt to lead to conflicts of perception between helping the manager and helping the organization. Dilemmas of this kind are demonstrated by presenting the counselling process from a psychoanalytical viewpoint and from a typically organizational viewpoint, looking at the organization and diagnosing it with the help of various metaphors in which the manager, his position, his function and the expectations directed at him are interwoven.