Notes on Contributors

SETH ALLCORN, PhD, is the Vice President for Business and Finance for the University of New England. Dr Allcorn has over twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centres. He has served as Assistant Dean and Chief Financial Officer for Texas Tech's school of medicine, 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-five years as a part-time and full-time organizational consulting 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.

ULRIKA OLSSON BENYAMIN is a Bachelor of Social Science and Master of psychology. Email:

SIV BOALT BOËTHIUS, PhD, is a Professor Emerita at Stockholm University, a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She was the principal of a university college (the Erica Foundation) before becoming an organizational consultant. She is a board member (former president and vice president) of AGSLO (the Swedish Foundation for the Study of Leadership and Organization) and a member of ISPSO. She was the Chair of the ISPSO Annual Meeting in 2007 and has been the president of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP) 2002-2007. She is on the editorial board for Small Group Research, and on the international advisory boards for Organisational and Social Dynamics and Journal of Child Psychotherapy.

CLARE CHAPMAN, MSc, is Programme Leader for the Diploma in Professional Studies-Counselling course at the University of the West of England. Prior to taking on this role, she set up and