From the Buddha to Bion: Looking for a Reflective Stance That is Useful*

Group and organisational consultant and a social researcher working with health and social care systems in the public sector and not-for-profit and religious organisations. He is an Associate of Tavistock Consulting in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, working with management and clinical teams delivering mental health services in the UK, and also a professional partner of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, where he was a research staff member in the 1970s working with Eric Miller and Isabel Menzies Lyth. He directed the international experiential “Leicester” group relations conference on authority and leadership in 1999 and 2001, and has directed and worked on “Tavistock” group relations conferences in universities and other institutions in the UK and other countries, including Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, and Peru. He has a PhD on a systems psychodynamic approach to health and social care, and his publication Managing Vulnerability describes this theoretical approach and his research, and includes an account of his lived experience of vulnerability in the illness and death of a family member. He is a founding member of OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) and more recently of ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Organisations).