Notes on Contributors

SETH ALLCORN, PhD, MBA, has 15 years of experience consulting to strategic planning, organizational restructuring, including merger facilitation and business process redesign, for large and small organizations. Dr. Allcorn also has 20 years of experience as a healthcare executive. He is currently the Director of Business Process and Analysis, Health Enhancement Division of Matria Healthcare. His previous position was as Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola, Chicago. Dr. Allcorn has published extensively. His latest books are: The Dynamic Workplace: Present Structure and Future Redesign , Death of the Spirit in the American Workplace and Managing People During Stressful Times: The Psychologically Defensive Workplace . He has also published a number of additional books and chapters and more than 60 papers in popular practitioner and scholarly journals.

JONATHAN ASSER is a psychodynamic counsellor and an organisational consultant. His first collection of poetry, Outside The All Stars is available from Arc Publications.

RINA BAR-LEV ELIELI, PhD, is a training psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist and organizational consultant. She is currently the President of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She is the founder and first Co-Director, together with Professor Laurence Gould, of the Program in Organizational Development and Consultation - a systemic psychoanalytic perspective in the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, of which she is now a faculty member. Her everyday work combines psychoanalytic practice and consultation, both as a therapist and consultant and as a supervisor, in the two disciplines.

GOURANGA P. CHATTOPADHYAY started his work life as a social anthropologist. Later on he went to the UK as a Leverhulme Fellow when he came in touch with A. K. Rice at the Tavistock Institute. This meeting contributed towards his decision to join the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, as a faculty member in