Taking Bion “Back to Basics”: Let Us Stop Counting—“Oneness” as the Only Basic-Assumption Mentality

Senior Lecturer in organisation studies at the Bristol Business School (University of the West of England) and the UK Editor of Organisational and Social Dynamics. Her research is based on ethnographic designs and she leads both national and international projects with the group-psychoanalytic framework developed in her PhD. Her most recent research includes a focus on negative capability, emotional leadership, and collaborative decision-making in groups. Conference papers, among others, include: “The Arab Spring: effective group work in complex and uncertain environments” (BAM Annual Meeting, 2013); “Can we find the future of work in our past? Work group mentality in a convent” (with Robert French, ISPSO Annual Symposium, 2013); “Ore et Labore: pray and observe—ethnography in a convent.” (“Ethnography: Theory, Form and Practice” Conference, 2011); “How ‘us versus them thinking’ can make an entire organisation sick” (ISPSO Annual Symposium, 2015). She is also part of the teaching team on Tavistock Consulting's D10 programme.