Notes on Contributors

SETH ALLCORN, PhD, is an Assistant Dean and Chief Financial Officer for the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. Dr Allcorn has twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola, Chicago and as the administrator of the departments of medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and University of Rochester schools of medicine. He has worked for twenty years as a part-time and full-time organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic planning, and organizational restructuring. Dr Allcorn is extensively published. He is the author or co-author of eleven books and over sixty papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

JOHN BIRD is Reader in Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England. He is also a member of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at UWE. His interest in the psychosocial developed within research to try to explain the psychodynamics of racial and ethnic hatred. His current research is on the emotional attachments to technology, particularly computer-based technologies. His most recent paper is ‘On the poverty of theory’, in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2006, 11(3): 251-264.

CHRISTINE CAVE is a freelance organizational consultant and trainer, with a background in social work, counselling and professional education. She is a qualified teacher and social worker and has an MA from her training at the Tavistock Clinic in Consultation and the Organisational Process.

FERNANDE FAULKNER is an organizational consultant and partner of the consulting firm Erikson, Faulkner and Foster and an executive coach. An organizational consultant, over the years she has combined a variety of methodologies