“Relationships with organizations are complex and typically fraught, often to the point of being painful. Using contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory, with a focus on his concept of organizational identity, Michael Diamond works to make this complex irrationality comprehensible, so that it can be worked within positive and transformative ways.”—Howard S. Schwartz, Oakland University, author of Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organization Ideal
“A highly sophisticated attempt to bridge the difficult space between abstract theorizing and real life experiences. It succeeds brilliantly.”—Yiannis Gabriel, University of Bath
“Michael Diamond develops a multi-layered idea of organizational identity built on psychoanalytic object relations theory and self-psychology. This idea emphasizes the complex relationship between conscious and unconscious processes, true and false self, and conflicted needs for belonging and independence. This is a fine book that will be of value not only to students of organizations but to all of those struggling with their experiences working in organizational settings.”—David Levine, author of Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World: On Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict
