Understanding and supporting a person-in-environment (PIE) have been a center for social work practice (Kondrat, 2013). Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic approaches have contributed to our understanding of intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics in clinical social work practice,mostly in the realms of “the person” and the “environment,” of maternal functions, and family and group dynamics. Several scholars apply psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to expand the scope of “environment” into the social issues (e.g., racism) and conflicts (e.g., hate crime and after-war reconciliation) on community, national, and international levels (Hirvoner, 2017; Rasmussen & Salhani, 2010; Zevnik, 2017). In this special issue, we like to align with this scholarship and further expand its scope to various levels of governing institutions (e.g., social work profession, media, schools, governments and laws), especially how psychodynamic approaches help social workers better understand diversity, power, and the working of the institutions in serving clients. Invigorating the “social” environment in social work from psychoanalysis and psychodynamic approaches, we draw from scholarships in socio-analysis. In a book titled On Socio-Analysis, Bain (1999) offered the definition of socioanalysis by drawing from Bion’s (1970) construct of “container and contained” which was originally used to explore phenomena in psychoanalysis but later used to explore group and institutional phenomena. Bain refers to socio-analysis as “the transformation process, or co-evolution, that occurs between organizational container and contained during socio-analytic consultancy” which can be used as “a measure of organizational learning” (p. 3).He further offers how this socio-analysis can be used in four senses as: (1) socio-analytic ideas and theory (a container for the practice of socio-analysis, and thinking socio-analytic thoughts), (2) design and methodology (for an exploration, e.g., for consultancy and action research, for studying small group behavior), (3) the institution (as a container for encouraging, and carrying out socio-analytic work), and (4) the individual (as a container for the

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精神分析、社会分析和社会工作：心理动力学对理解社会工作实践中的多样性、权力和制度的贡献

理解和支持环境中的人 (PIE) 一直是社会工作实践的中心 (Kondrat, 2013)。精神分析和心理动力学方法有助于我们理解临床社会工作实践中的内在和人际动态，主要是在“人”和“环境”领域、母性功能以及家庭和团体动态方面。一些学者应用精神分析和心理动力学方法将“环境”的范围扩展到社区、国家和国际层面的社会问题（例如种族主义）和冲突（例如仇恨犯罪和战后和解）（Hirvoner，2017 年；拉斯穆森和萨尔哈尼，2010 年；泽夫尼克，2017 年）。在本期特刊中，我们希望与该奖学金保持一致，并将其范围进一步扩大到各级管理机构（例如，社会工作专业、媒体、学校、政府和法律），特别是心理动力学方法如何帮助社会工作者更好地理解多样性、权力和机构在服务客户方面的工作。通过精神分析和心理动力学方法为社会工作中的“社会”环境注入活力，我们借鉴了社会分析的奖学金。在一本名为 On Socio-Analysis 的书中，Bain (1999) 通过借鉴 Bion (1970) 的“容器和被包含”的结构，提供了社会分析的定义，该结构最初用于探索精神分析中的现象，但后来用于探索群体和制度现象. 贝恩将社会分析称为“转变过程，或共同进化，