Notes on Contributors

DAVID ARMSTRONG is a Principal Consultant at the Tavistock Consultancy Service, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. A collection of his occasional papers, Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, edited by Robert French, was published in 2005 (London: Karnac).

LOUISA DIANA BRUNNER, B.A. (Political Sciences); M.Sc. (Industrial Relations and Personnel Management); Organizational and Management Consultant in profit and non profit-organisations. She does Selection and Career Coaching to the Executive MBA Courses at Bocconi School of Management Milan (Italy). Author of several articles and coauthor of two books. Board Member - Treasurer PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities); Honorary Member Il Nodo Group; Member: CSGSS - the Boston Affiliate of AKRI, Family Firm Institute, ISPSO, OFEK, OPUS. She is doing her PhD at the Centre Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England Management.

R. D. HINSHELWOOD is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is currently Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He has been interested in many aspects of the social life of psychiatric institutions and the way that psychoanalytic ideas might help in understanding and improving the work of mental healthcare. He founded the journal, Therapeutic Communities, for the Association of Therapeutic Communities in 1980. He has written and researched on many psychoanalytic topics.

JAMES KRANTZ, Ph.D is an organisational consultant and researcher with WorkLab Consulting in New York City. He is a past President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, member of OPUS and the A.K. Rice Institute. Formerly on the faculties of Yale University and the Wharton School, he has had a long standing research interest in the unconscious background of organisational life, the seam between sys