Notes on Contributors

C. FRED ALFORD is Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. Author of ten books applying psychoanalysis to social theory, his latest is Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Cornell University Press, 2001). He is an associate of the A. K. Rice Institute.

SUSAN LONG (Ph.D.) is 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.

Dr JUDITH LEVY teaches in the Department of English of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of V. S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography (New York: Garland Press, 1995), and has written on post-colonialism, psychoanalysis and the subjective in criticism.

EDWARD R. SHAPIRO is the Medical Director/CEO at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. This paper was presented at a combined meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the