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Stories are powerful organic forces within organizational life. This paper examines how the storytelling technique can be used as a method of collecting emotional, authentic, rich, and revealing research data from organizational members during times of increased uncertainty and turbulence. The method is a valuable way in which to gain insights into organizational members' discourses and is used in this paper in relation to revealing their experienced, felt, and displayed emotions while at work. Examples from a research project which examined the emotions and emotional self-management of academics around the world during New Public Management reforms are used to illustrate how the scope of storytelling is credible in exploring significant events that illuminate the meaning that academics give to their organizational emotions. Despite its power, the use of storytelling in organizational literature is comparatively rare, particularly within under-researched contexts such as higher education. The paper concludes with a discussion on the implications for employing storytelling as an opportunity for developing new insights within periods of increasing organizational turbulence.

Phenomenology has been a fertile source of inspiration for researchers working in a range of fields, such as psychology, psychoanalysis, and nursing. However, there has been little explicit engagement of the methodology by management scholars. This article discusses the implications of undertaking phenomenological research into emotions in organizations. This is a powerful tool that seeks to explore how organizational members subjectively experience and give meaning to certain emotions. A phenomenological study is used as an example to illustrate how the scope of phenomenology is suitable and timely in exploring significant events that illuminate the meaning that professionals give to their organizational emotions. This approach can be regarded as a methodological contribution to knowledge, as phenomenological studies in management are rare, particularly within under-researched contexts such as higher education. The case concludes with a discussion on the implications for employing phenomenology as an opportunity for developing new insights within current and popular bodies of organizational research.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos Vavouranakis, Ioannis Poulios and Pavlina Raouzaiou -- 1. Assessing possible futures for cultural heritage: national, global, public, private, commercial?: John Carman -- PART 1: THE STATE MEETS THE PRIVATE -- 2. Archaeological Resource Management in Greece: state, private, public and common: Giorgos Vavouranakis -- 3. Developmental and energy infrastructures in proximity to historic environments: the investor and the state: Ioannis Poulios and George Arampatzis -- PART 2: THE PRIVATE MEETS THE PUBLIC -- 4. Cultural tourism and cultural heritage in times of change: private initiative in Greece vis-à-vis the Greek state: Katerina Giannitsioti, Smaragda Touloupa and Ioannis Poulios -- PART 3: MUSEUMS AT CROSSROADS -- 5. Valuing museums in government-indebted Greece: critical thoughts on critical questions: Marlen Mouliou -- 6. 'An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached?' Entitlement, ownership, pleasure and controversy in the discourse on museums as public spaces: Myrto Hatzaki -- 7. When 'public' meets 'private': the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia as a case study: Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel -- PART 4: TOWARDS A NEW 'PUBLIC': COMMUNICATION PRACTICES AND POLICIES -- 8. Heritage encounters on social network sites, and the affiliative power of objects: Costis Dallas -- 9. Cultural production in Greece between the 'public' and the 'private' sphere: is there a difference to the 'public'?: Andromache Gazi -- 10. Seeking the scapegoat in the relationship between culture and communication: Mary Adamopoulou

Aim: The treatment of major mental disorders usually combines medical and psychosocial interventions. The present study reviews research pertaining to the efficacy of group psychosocial interventions for people with psychotic illness. Method: An electronic search was conducted through Medline and PsychINFO to identify articles relevant to group therapy for people with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. Articles published in the English language, between January 1986 and May 2006, were considered. Studies were included if they had a control group and at least 20 participants. The search resulted in 23 articles concerning patients with schizophrenia and five concerning patients with bipolar affective disorder. Results and Conclusion: The therapeutic approach in the majority of the studies was along the lines of cognitive behaviour therapy and psychoeducation. All studies reported improvement in at least one parameter. Most of them report improvement in skills and overall functioning.

This pilot study investigates the contribution of supportive psychodynamically oriented group psychotherapy to the clinical characteristics and functioning of psychotic patients. After a year of group psychotherapy using an intermediary object, the drawings of a number of psychotic patients were inspected separately so as to ascertain the improvement of psychopathological elements depicted. Two groups of 38 patients each, with similar psychopathology, clinical and demographic data were assessed before and after 1 year. One group participated in group psychotherapy, with or without an intermediary object; the other group received standard care. The study demonstrated improvement in functioning, quality of life, positive/negative symptoms, and relapses of hospitalizations for patients participating in group psychotherapy. Moreover, elements that indicate psychopathology declined in the drawings of the group in therapy with an intermediary object. Psychodynamically oriented group psychotherapy, with or without an intermediary object, could be an additional treatment option for psychotic patients.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in HIV‐infected patients is associated with both HIV and non‐HIV‐related factors. Initial renal dysfunction is silent and detectable only by laboratory tests such as the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimated by the Cockcroft‐Gault equation. Our objective was to assess possible risk factors for CKD in a cohort of Greek HIV‐1‐infected adults.MethodsPatients in the AMACS (Athens Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study) cohort with at least two available creatinine values were enrolled in the study. Renal dysfunction was defined as eGFR below 90 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Kaplan‐Meier estimator and the Cox proportional hazards model were used to analyze the occurrence and predictors of renal dysfunction.ResultsA total of 1073 patients were enrolled in the study; 255 (23.76%) had baseline eGFR below 90 mL/min/1.73 m2 and were excluded. Characteristics of the study population: men 88.4%, MSM 62.6%, median baseline age, CD4+count and viral load were 32.6 years, 413 cells/µL and 3.77 log10 copies/mL, respectively. 240 (29.3%) patients experienced an eGFR decrease below 90 mL/min/1.73 m2 during follow‐up period. Older age, female gender, heterosexual mode of transmission, lower baseline eGFR (all p<0.001), lower baseline CD4+(p=0.001), stage C (p=0.023), administration of cART (p<0.001) or other nephrotoxic agent (p=0.035) were the major risk factors in univariable analysis. Multivariable analysis identified older age [hazard ratio (HR) 1.289 per 10 years, p<0.001] and female gender (HR vs male: 1.899, p<0.001), as the major factors associated with increased hazard of developing CRD, whereas baseline eGFR <110 (HR vs eGFR <110: 0.245, p<0.001) and current CD4+count ≥350 cells/µL (HR 0.564, p=0.003) were significant protective factors.ConclusionIn this large cohort of HIV‐infected Greek patients, almost one‐third (29.3%) experienced some degree of renal dysfunction during HIV infection. Older age and female gender were major predictors of CKD, whereas high current CD4+count and baseline eGFR were protective.