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Chapter Six. New foundations: Winnicott and Bion 60 – theoretical developments for religion, spirituality and the sacred Winnicott and the origins of a transitional paradigm Winnicott and religion Bion and the origins of a transformational paradigm Bion, O and the mystical PART B. THE ENGAGEMENT OF RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY AND THE SACRED IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS Chapter Seven. Patterns of engagement – Confessional/Credal 78 Parallel Lines – Meissner’s contribution God-representations – a new analytic concept Chapter Eight. Patterns of engagement – Incarnational/Transferential 96 Leavy’s psychoanalytic image of God Jones’ transference and transcendence Chapter Nine. Patterns of engagement – Natural Religion 104 Psychoanalysis – a monotheistic natural religion Psychoanalysis – a moral natural religion Chapter Ten. Patterns of engagement – the return of the Mother 114 Chapter Eleven. Patterns of engagement – Jewish perspectives 120 Chapter Twelve. Patterns of engagement – Buddhist perspectives 125 Psychoanalytic and Buddhist engagement in Britain Psychoanalytic and Buddhist engagement in the USA Chapter Thirteen. Patterns of engagement – Hindu perspectives 140 Distinctive trends in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy Contemporary overview – psychoanalysis Chapter Fourteen. Patterns of engagement – Muslim perspectives 150
Chapter Fifteen. Patterns of engagement – Mystical perspectives 154 Key figures Key ideas and developments Chapter Sixteen. Patterns of engagement – Self-psychology, 164 interpersonal, intersubjective and relational perspectives PART C. METHODOLOGY, INTERVIEWS AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Chapter Seventeen. Research methodology 171 The selection of research subjects The selection of research data Chapter Eighteen. Research ethics processes 180 Chapter Nineteen. Research interview processes 183 The methodology of recording and transcription Chapter Twenty. Analyzing qualitative research interviews 187 Psychoanalytic intersubjective interview methodology Thematic narrative analysis Group intersubjective analysis Chapter Twenty-One. Psychoanalytic intersubjective interview methodology 1. Contextual Issues 195 2. Jessica Benjamin (JB) 197 3. Phil Mollon (PM) 204 4. Alessandra Lemma (AL) 209 5. Adam Phillips (AP) 215 6. Anonymous (AN) 220 7. Jim Grotstein (JG) 225
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Molino 1997). While Coltart combine
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esponse gave Symington the impetus
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analytic theory, and clinical techn
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CHAPTER FIVE. RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITU
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produced further discussion and pub
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vision for psychoanalysis and he fo
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psychotherapist with important conn
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Winnicott is arguably the most infl
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theory includes developmental, tran
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particular significance for the nat
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decades of his life. 157 Religion f
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made a lovely missionary’ (quoted
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Bion gained encouragement for his e
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elements/function; or phenomena and
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inherent human knowing of infinity
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PART B. THE ENGAGEMENT OF RELIGION,
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The third strand was the use of Win
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psychoanalysis 187 Meissner articul
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work of Winnicott (Winnicott 1965,
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pertaining to grace, providence, an
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Gay’s work is less than convincin
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ecame Clinical Professor of Psychia
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postulated by theologians and philo
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life cycle from birth to death’ (
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Rizzuto’s major contribution was
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Thirdly both use the work of Hans L
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a form of dualism that despite thes
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experiential moments of timelessnes
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accessed in more immediate ways. Ma
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efines psychoanalytic insights. 240
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Symington recalls that he had had e
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Symington’s contribution includes
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ased on illusion. Whereas religion
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approach to psychoanalysis has mean
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penis envy, as well as the nature a
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transcend the limitations establish
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In a parallel development Chodorow
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Cohen and Gereboff provide a detail
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feature of the work of Eigen who
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CHAPTER TWELVE. PATTERNS OF ENGAGEM
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Coltart, and later, David Black. 28
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never in conflict and had the poten
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sense of who we are and what we do.
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consciousness. Some would describe
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Martino 1991; Rubin 1992; Westkott
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components of spirituality identifi
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engagement, unfolding dialogue and
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Rabindrath Tagore’s move from a s
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in its own right, and modify modes
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A third theoretical approach involv
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transference and multiple gods; and
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Despite these recent developments o
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treatment’ (Ad-Bab'bagh 2001: 283
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oases where they find refuge, so th
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searching; isolation and involvemen
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The work of Eigen is a unique synth
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developed by Heidegger and used by
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mystical journey can be seen as an
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Grotstein uniquely sees psychoanaly
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that has multiple dimensions includ
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PART C. METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS, IN
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3. Relational engagement gives the
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. RESEARCH METHODO
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conscious that offers the opportuni
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European perspectives. The disadvan
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addition of a third cultural contex
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Further reflexive exploration was u
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especting and valuing of the other
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CHAPTER NINETEEN. RESEARCH INTERVIE
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The interviews were recorded using
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CHAPTER TWENTY. ANALYZING QUALITATI
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Thematic Narrative Analysis The ana
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group facilitator and CBT trainer;
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identified similar themes to those
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. PSYCHOANALYTIC
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the physical and metaphysical use o
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Personal ontology JB’s ontology i
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was a high level of honesty - a gen
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allowed was JB to clarify her under
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What I noticed immediately was the
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As the interview developed I very m
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Alessandra Lemma (AL) Alessandra Le
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esources that people have within th
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central therapeutic task (Ulanov 20
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unconscious that combine the spirit
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the species or the desire to create
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two-way process with the researcher
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Freud’s ideas were in transition
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Conscious encounter The introductio
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session found within a British Klei
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• We discover the eternal unconsc
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• Openness to the numinous and th
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stood out from this second meeting.
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aspects of their being. My engageme
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linking to the other/Other (PM, JG)
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spirituality without becoming gods.
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JG elicited an idealized, positive
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with my father, the fact of being a
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a whole range of thoughts and feeli
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. A THEMATIC NA
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discovered the religious instinct w
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atheistic vision that dispenses wit
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The creativity of Winnicott Winnico
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neuroscience and the growth of reli
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y others. There are ‘resonances a
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there’ (JB 65). Eigen’s eclecti
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Coltart was a highly regarded Briti
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The term ‘zeitgeist’ was used t
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Rizzuto focuses on the internal, ps
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‘I think clearly for a lot of peo
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562). An analyst might say a little
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Lemma located her ambivalence to re
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eligious experience arising in ever
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the psyche through making space for
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Areas of dialogue include: the natu
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A critical dialogue between psychoa
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worlds. ‘We’ve probably never l
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is to study religion because religi
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makes it difficult to go beyond equ
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Rubin adds positively that spiritua
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and psychoanalysis (Galatzer-Levy a
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Theme 8: Mystical/Mystic/O 487 If a
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Theme 9: Love 490 Sayers suggests t
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. THEMATIC COMME
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their absence as much as their pres
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conversation he encouraged my work
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PART D. SACRED PSYCHOANALYSIS - AN
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. ‘SACRED PSYC
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that offers a cross-over or transfe
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and psychoanalytic discourse by dev
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. ‘SACRED PSYCH
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and the spiritual (Sorenson 2000, 2
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Figure 3. A dominant sacred interpr
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form of splitting reminiscent of ea
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fulfils Meissner’s vision for a
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Figure 6. Winnicott (DW1-2) Winnico
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person was Neville Symington. By co
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eflects Eigen’s experience of Bub
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elationship to others and live out
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psychoanalysis and this is the purp
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evelation, in a more challenging fa
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into his being, but the meeting wit
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. ‘SACRED PSY
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and analyst’ (Ogden 2005: 6). How
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the transition (it is, by definitio
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Signals of transcendence It is too
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Catholic Mass, mystical encounter,
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ultimate reality and truth - the un
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self-knowledge echoing the words of
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cause it becomes pathological as se
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understood beyond the limited clini
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CHAPTER THIRTY. ‘SACRED PSYCHOANA
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clinical papers presented at confer
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encounters with Grotstein where the
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etc.? What is the place of mistakes
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enormous. In the conclusion I have
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2. Potential Interview questions Qu
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Part Two - Consent Form If you are
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Appendix 3. Oskar Pfister and the u
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Solms also identifies the challenge
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disciplines of reflection, meditati
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8. A total sense of self, including
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Ethical Permission for a Qualitativ
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adversarial encounter? There was re
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1. Eigen’s religious and spiritua
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experience, allied to a formidable
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(Freud 1939).’ (Eigen 1998: 12).
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the founders of intersubjectivity
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tradition. He rather adopts a Zen a
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personal lives in that sort of way.
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Alvesson, Mats, and Kaj Sköldberg.
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Coyte, Mary, Peter Gilbert, and Vic
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Freke, Sarah. 1999. Review of 'The
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Issroff, Judith. 1999. Reflections
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Meissner, William. 1966. The operat
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