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THE ADDICTIVE ORGANIZATION --- WHY WE OVERWORK, COVER UP, PICK UP THE PIECES,
PLEASE THE BOSS AND PERPETUATE SICK ORGANIZATIONS by Anne Wilson Schaef. Harper & Row, 1988

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION --- a missing piece (p1-10)

1) The origins of an idea (p11-54)

2) The "addictive" system --- terms and characteristics (p55-76)


[1] Addiction (p57-60)


(1) Substance and process addiction (p58-60)


[2] System (p60-61)


(1) Addictive system (p61)

(2) Characteristics of addiction (p62-68)


[3] Process (p68-73)


(1) The process of "the promise" (p69)

(2) The process of the "pseudopodic ego" (p69-70)

(3) The process of "external referencing" (p 70-71)

(4) The process of "invalidation" (p71)

(5) The process of "fabricating personality conflicts" (p71-72)

(6) The process of "dualism" (p72-73)


[4] Co-dependence (p73-76)


3) The four major forms of "addiction" in organizations> (p77-176)


[1] Organizations in which a person is an "addict"! (p79-94)

[2] Taking your "disease" with you into the organization, or the "reality of replication!" (p95-117)

[3] The organization as the "addictive substance!" (p118-136)

[4] The organization as "addict!" (p137-176)


(4) Recovery in the addictive organization (p177-202)

5) Implications and conclusions (p203-204)


[1] What are the implications IF organizations continue to function "addictively?" (p205-211)

[2] What happens when organizations begin to recover and make a "system shift" (p212-226)


APPENDIX (p227-228)

NOTES (p227)

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