Re-aligning rationality: Crisis management and prisoner abuses in Iraq |
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| Institution: | 1. Graduate Program in Human Resource Management, La Roche College, 9000 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, USA;2. School of Business, Point Park University, 201 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA;1. Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States;2. Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, NC, United States;3. VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Durham, NC, United States;4. Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States;1. School of Biological Sciences, Queen''s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK;2. IMARES Wageningen UR, Haringkade 1, 1976CP, Ijmuiden, The Netherlands;3. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK;4. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Inverdee House, Baxter Street, Aberdeen AB11 9QA, UK;5. IMARES Wageningen UR, Landsdiep 4,’‘t Horntje, Texel, The Netherlands;6. Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Animal Sciences Unit-Aquatic Environment and Quality, Ankerstraat 1, 8400 Oostende, Belgium;7. Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries, Palmaille 9, 22767 Hamburg, Germany;8. Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Galway, Ireland;1. Vanderbilt University, USA;2. King''s College London, UK;3. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK |
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| Abstract: | This paper focuses on the U.S. military abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib as a case-based illustration of a psychodynamic approach to organizations. Rather than viewing the abuse and its PR aftermath as an instance of poor crisis management, we argue that it should be seen as an expression of systemic neurosis at the highest levels of government. Understanding crisis as the normal outcome of a dysfunctional system provides an alternative explanation of the nature and causes of crisis and prescribes therapeutic intervention prior to training in crisis management and public relations. |
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