Consultation

Mr. Allison is active in the Kansas City business community and is active in applying psychoanalytic principles to management operations, human resource departments, as well as employee assistance programs. Many companies experience 'blockages', or repetitive patterns that may be interfering with productivity or a healthy and functional work-force. Typically, if unaddressed, these problems can only lead to further issues in the workplace, with additional stress, additional burdens, and eventually, to termination. Since the cost of termination or re-structuring can arguably be much more costly than a successful resolution to the problem, Mr. Allison's psychoanalytic consultation can provide an objective focus and productivity-centered alternatives and solutions.

Why Consult with a Psychoanalyst? How is that Different than a Human Resource Department?

Typically, Human Resource Departments can be skilled at handling a wide-range of internal issues. Businesses are a lot like families and often the family is able to solve problems for itself. Sometimes, however, it is helpful to have an objective focus or an 'outside' opinion that is not contaminated by the emotional and financial complexities that a Human Resource Department must situate itself in. For example, a worker may not be able to express their true feelings (as an H.R. worker or crisis management worker) or genuine ideas about an issue for fear of reprisal, or injuring another's feelings, or their own, mainly because they work for ultimately the same employer ie. they are members themselves of the same family. In these situations, as well as a general 'stuck' feeling in the workplace, it is helpful to consult an outside opinion, such as a psychoanalyst uniquely trained to understand the conscious and unconscious dynamics that exist organizational world.