Notes on Contributors

R. D. HINSHELWOOD is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and currently Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. Previously he was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital. He has written extensively on the work of Melanie Klein and has also spent many years working clinically in and with therapeutic communities, producing a number of publications, including What Happens in Groups (1987). He has been interested in the application of psychoanalysis to social science, publishing Observing Organisations (2000, edited with Wilhelm Skogstad), Thinking about Institutions (2001), and recently a book on psychosis and the dynamics of the psychiatric institution - Suffering Insanity (2004).

CLARE HUFFINGTON is a freelance organizational consultant and executive coach working with leaders of public, private and voluntary sector organizations in UK and elsewhere. She is an associate of the Tavistock Consultancy Service, London UK, and President-Elect of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

MATHIAS LOHMER is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst (IPA) He is working as psychotherapist, coach, and organizational consultant in Munich, Germany. He is a member of ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) and of IPOM (Institut für Psychodynamische Organisationsberatung München - ). He is on the board of an IPOM training programme for psychodynamic organizational consultation and co-director of the TFP-Institute Muenchen (Transference focused Psychotherapy), specializing in the training and research of psychodynamic psychotherapy for severe personality disorders.

ROSE REDDING MERSKY is an organizational development consultant and executive coach and a Senior Associate of inscape.international in Cologne, Germany (). She is a member of the International Society of the Psychoanalytic S