Notes on Contributors

C. FRED ALFORD is Professor of Government and Distinguished-Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has written a dozen books on moral psychology. His most recent is Levinas, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalysis (Continuum, now Sage, UK and the Wesleyan University Press, USA).

JOHN BROADBENT read English at Edinburgh University and taught as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a professor at East Anglia, his principal academic work being in 17th-century poetry. He took early retirement to study to be a painter and some of his work has been hung at the Tavistock Centre. During the 1970s he worked on the staff of the Leicester conferences and has been involved with OPUS since its earliest days.

FRANCESCA CARDONA is an organisational consultant providing consultancy at individual, team and institutional levels in the areas of leadership development, team-building, management of change and conflict, merger and integration. She has extensive experience in group relations training conferences, taking various staff roles both in the UK and abroad. She is also a visiting tutor on the MA course ‘Consultation and the Organisation: Psychoanalytic Approaches’ at the Tavistock Clinic and on the ‘Management and Leadership Courses in Mental Health Services’ at the Cassel Hospital. She is a member of FRC (Foster Roberts Cardona) consulting group.

DR SIMON CLARKE is Co-Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies and a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England where he teaches Sociological Theory, Psychoanalytic Studies and Social Psychology. He has published widely on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social exclusion and is author of Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism. He is Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

OLYA KHALEELEE works primarily as a Corporate Psychologist with Pintab Associates. She also has a strong interest in group relations, organisational consultancy an