Notes on Contributors

David Armstrong is an associate consultant at Tavistock Consulting. From 1959-1967 he was a junior project officer at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, working on action research assignments with Eric Trist, Hugh Murray, and Eric Miller. After a ten year stint as senior research fellow at Chelsea College, University of London, he joined the staff of The Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, working in action research, group relations, and organisational consultancy. In 1994 he returned to the Tavistock, on the founding of a dedicated consultancy service within the Tavistock Clinic. He has worked extensively as a consultant with private, public, and voluntary organisations, both in the UK and abroad and has been actively involved in the development of Group Relations over many years. He is the author of Organization In the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, a collection of occasional papers, edited by Robert French and published by Karnac in 2005.

Wesley Carr is a Church of England priest who retired as Dean of Westminster in 2006. He has had a long association with Group Relations Conferences. He has written extensively on this model and used it in many contexts, to a large extent in religion and churches. With Dr Shapiro, he has also produced several papers and a book.

Lowell Cooper, PhD, is currently a psychologist in private clinical and organisational practice and Professor Emeritus, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University.

Douglas Kirsner, PhD, holds a personal chair in Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Douglas's research is about trying to understand how individuals, groups, organisations, and societies function together, or do not. He is interested in the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis and in how organisations are systems that are a function of their structure. He has lectured and published widely (including Unfree Assoc