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Socio-Analytic Dialogue : Incorporating Psychosocial Dynamics into Public Policies - Bruno Boccara

Socio-Analytic Dialogue

Incorporating Psychosocial Dynamics into Public Policies

By: Bruno Boccara

eBook | 25 June 2014

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In this book, Bruno Boccara argues that complex and changing psychosocial issues, in particular those related to the societal unconscious, must be assessed and incorporated in public policy analysis through Socio-Analytic Dialogue, a psychosocial approach aimed at understanding and addressing emotional issues surrounding public policies worldwide through empathic dialogue. Taking into account societal level anxieties and defense mechanisms—at both the conscious and unconscious levels—when formulating and implementing policies increases the awareness and understanding of psychosocial issues, and decreases the need, and therefore the likelihood, of societies adopting regressive social defenses.

Covering international topics including research from the United States; Tunisia and the Arab spring; discontent and riots in Chile, Israel, and the United Kingdom; and humiliation in Sub-Saharan Africa, the book identifies how country-level psychosocial dynamics impact public policies, and suggests that policies themselves can become social defenses. Two case studies, firstly on the World Bank and foreign aid, and secondly on Bolivia, illustrate how a deep understanding of psychosocial issues can provide new insights on the functioning of organizations (perverse dynamics) and on a country’s policy choices and economic performance.

Building upon recent work in sociology and psychoanalysis, the book demonstrates that Socio-Analytic Dialogue has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding worldwide discontent and anxieties.
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Bruno Boccara has written an important and highly original work. With telling and well-explained examples, he shows that country-level psychological issues, especially at the unconscious level, should play a major role in both the formulation of public policies and the understanding of their consequences. Socio-Analytic Dialogue opens a new window in the social sciences and especially in economics. Boccara’s achievement is based on deep expertise in many disparate areas, based on PhDs from MIT in both economics and civil engineering, in-depth psychoanalytic study at NYU, and extensive international experience in finance and economic development.
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