Members come from a wide range of professions including academicians, organization consultants, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and human resource professionals.
[1] The ISPSO seeks to help establish and sustain a community of thinkers and practitioners who share an interest in examining organizations from a psychoanalytic perspective.
It helps scholars and practitioners from different disciplines, countries and with varying political persuasions to develop and communicate ideas, including those focused on applying research and theory to practice.
Both the morning and afternoon activities enact the ISPSO's belief that groups can facilitate individual learning through self-reflection and by eliciting people's unconsciously coded responses to the themes, issues and events of a particular setting.
[11] Psychoanalytic institutes apply psychoanalysis when they work with schools, prisons, and other human service organizations where emotions and their vicissitudes play an important role.