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
    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 KEY 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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