Danse Macabre: How Eros and Thanatos Run the World

A chartered clinical psychologist, freelance organisational consultant, and accredited executive coach. She has published extensively on clinical and organisational issues, edited several books for Karnac Books including Executive Coaching: Systems—Psychodynamic Perspective (2006), which was translated into Italian in 2009 as La Matutenzione del Capo. She conceived of and edited a trilogy of books that analyse the contemporary world through a psychoanalytic lens, the titles include: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World, co-edited with Mario Perini (2010), Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World (2012), and Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability (2014). She conducted training events on systems-psychodynamic coaching in Europe and the UK for the HEC, Il Nodo, Rasztow, Prorozvoyovo, the iCoach Academy, and other organisations including Tavistock Consulting (2011-2012). Currently she is interested in taking to European countries workshops and conferences based on the ideas generated by the trilogy of books, the first of such events took place in Warsaw, Poland in 2014.

A self-employed corporate psychologist and organisational consultant with a particular interest in leadership, organisational transition, and transformation. She has been associated with the Tavistock Institute for over thirty years in developing group relations both in the UK and abroad, has been on the staff of many conferences, and was the first female director of the Leicester Conference, which explores authority, leadership, and organisation from a psychoanalytic and systemic perspective. She was for many years director of OPUS: Organisation for Promoting the Understanding of Society. She has published extensively in the areas of leadership, including psychological assessment of senior executives and on system psychodynamics in the organisation and beyond, into society.