A Triptych of Atrocity: Organising Atrocity, Managing and Administering Atrocity, and the Language of Atrocity

Psychoanalytic, organisational, medical, and applied anthropologist, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. He is also group process facilitator in the American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center, Oklahoma City. He is Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Organizational Change, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. His most recent book, with Seth Allcorn, is The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, Practice published by the University of Missouri Press in late 2015.

Former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr Allcorn has more than twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as a financial and administrative Assistant Dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola-Chicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Rochester. He has worked for more than twenty years as a part-time and full-time organisational consultant specialising in the management of change, strategic planning, and organisational restructuring. Dr Allcorn is extensively published. He is the author or co-author of a dozen books, a half a dozen chapters, and over seventy-five papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organization.