NEW BOOK ABOUT WORKPLACE AND SCHOOL MOBBING AND BULLYING

Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, a new book co-authored by Dr. Maureen Duffy of the International Institute for Human Understanding with Dr. Len Sperry, has just been published by Oxford University Press.  This book shifts the conversation about bullying to that of mobbing and moves away from looking at so-called “bullies” as individual perpetrators acting out their aggressive impulses alone or in a small group to looking at the organizational context within which most bullying takes place.  In their new book, Duffy and Sperry examine organizational ethics and accountability in instances of what they refer to as “mobbing” and consider the actions, or more frequently, inactions of organizations and how organizational behavior supports and fuels mobbing and bullying.  Their book is chock-full of rich examples of mobbing and insightful analysis to go along with the examples.  It is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of workplace or school bullying and mobbing.

As well as examining the organizational role in much bullying and mobbing, the authors also look at the devastating health impact of bullying and mobbing on victims and recommend strategies for healing for both individuals impacted by bullying and mobbing and for the organizations in which it takes place.

The URL for Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions at Amazon is: http://tinyurl.com/endmobbing

At the Amazon site, you can purchase the book, read the jacket descriptions, and see the editorial and customer reviews.  Here’s to ending bullying and mobbing!

Maureen Duffy, Ph.D., is a practicing family therapist, consultant, educator, and author with over 25 years of experience.  She provides consultation to organizations and individuals about workplace mobbing and bullying, conflict resolution, and individual and family recovery from mobbing.  Maureen has published over 40 book chapters and journal articles and has presented her work nationally and internationally. She is on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, The Journal of Systemic Therapies, and The Family Journal and is an editor of The Qualitative Report. Maureen has won awards for outstanding achievement in education. 

 

 

New Book by iihu President, Dr. Patricia Munhall

Patricia L. Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, FAAN-International Institute for Human Understanding

Patricia Munhall, EdD, ARNP, NCPsyA, CNLP, FAAN, has been a Professor of Nursing for thirty years at various universities, including Hunter College, CUNY, and Teachers College, Columbia University. She also has been a psychoanalyst for 16 years.  She has a Doctorate in Nursing from Columia University and graduated from The Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis as a Psychoanalyst.

She is an international speaker on phenomenology as a research method and an approach to practice, an author or editor of eleven books, including phenomenologies, and over 60 manuscripts focusing on qualitative research, research studies, unknowing, phenomenology, and philosophical analysis.  Patricia is founder and president of the International Institute for Human Understanding, which sponsors qualitative research conferences, workshops and consultations and is located presently in Miami.

Patricia currently is writing, teaching, consulting, doing research and in clinical practice in Miami, Florida.

International Institute for Human Understanding

Fostering Tolerance , Compassion, & Justice Through Human Understanding
http://www.iihu.org

Welcome to the new IIHU blog!

The International Institute for Human Understanding (founded in 1995) exists to foster the welfare of humankind through practices of tolerance, compassion, and human understanding. The Institute evolved as a response to alienation, misconstruction, and injustice which lead to human suffering, loneliness, and oppression. The quest for understanding involves all systems of nature, both human and natural-environmental, and prompts members to promote an ongoing agenda of education, inquiry, and service. This quest for human understanding inspires searches for meaning within cultures and contexts. The Institute seeks to provide impetus for ethical responding within the ever-growing circle of diversity. Engagement in the mission of human understanding questions underlying philosophical assumptions, encourages civil discourse, and promotes humanitarian ideals reflecting acceptance, compassion, equality, and justice.

The aims of the Institute include:
• Fostering the study and research of human understanding to promote ethical and cultural responses reflective of humanitarian ideals.
• Advancing the values of tolerance, acceptance, and compassion among people.
• Promoting the search for meaning as a way of alleviating human suffering and enhancing quality of life.
• Developing OpenU’s (Open Universities) of the IIHU in villages, cities, and countries throughout the world.
• Developing publications, consultations, conferences, and outreach programs focused on the promotion of human understanding and the promotion of quality of life.

The Institute for Human Understanding attempts to promote the authentic telling of human experiences and events to bring people together in a humanistic way. The Institute sponsors programs to alleviate the alienation and separateness that individuals experience in the non-dominant groups of society. Through coming to understand others from the authentic sources of their different experiences, we hope to create meaning and positive social change. Through such understanding which originates from the people themselves, we aim to decrease conflicts, oppression, discrimination, and other kinds of suffering.

Thus far, the International Institute for Human Understanding has accomplished the following:
• Hosted and sponsored a number of international research conferences promoting the aims of the Institute.
• Provided educational programs for the community and for the academy. • Developed a number of school-based primary health centers in Miami-Dade County.
• Created the OpenU of the international Institute for Human Understanding.
• Developed IIHU community forums.
• Created the following centers within the IIHU:
Center for Social Justice
Center for Philosophy and Ethics
Center for the Study of Mind
Center for Culture