Working with Organizations: The Contribution of the Psychoanalytic Discourse

Professor of Management (Organisation Dynamics) within the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia where she teaches in postgraduate programs and supervises research candidates. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, she has worked as a group and organisation consultant and researcher for the past twenty years. Professor Long also has extensive experience within the field of group relations and has directed several conferences through the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis. She has also been on the staff of group relations conferences in the USA (Bridger Workshop), UK (Leicester), the Netherlands and in Israel; is President of the International Society for the Psycho-analytic Study of Organisations; is on the editorial board of three international journals and is a co-editor of Socio-Analysis the journal of AISA. Her research interests involve participatory action research projects in health, education and correctional services. Her publications include three books and several articles in scholarly journals.