Notes on Contributors

David Armstrong is an associate consultant at Tavistock Consulting, London. He is the author of Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy (Karnac, ), and a co editor with Michael Rustin of Social Systems as a Defence Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm (Karnac, ).

Philip Boxer, BSc MBA PhD, brings many years of experience with strategy processes at all levels within the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. His practice develops clients' edge-driven capabilities for competing in highly networked environments, focused on increasing both their agility and their ability to scale learning across networks. He has published in the fields of organisational and social dynamics, management studies, and systems engineering. Philip is a member of ISPSO (ispso.org), OPUS (opus.org.uk), and the (Lacanian) Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (cfar.org.uk). He received a BSc in engineering from London University, an MSc in business administration from the London Graduate School of Business Studies, and a PhD from the School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University. The focus of his research is on organisational defences against innovation ().

The Very Revd Dr Wesley Carr KCVO was the former Dean of Westminster Abbey and before that Dean of Bristol Cathedral. He worked closely with Dr Shapiro and while Dr Carr was in Bristol they co-wrote this book: Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections Between the Individual and Society (Yale University Press, ).

Paul Hoggett is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at UWE, Bristol where he was co-founder of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and was founding editor of Organisational and Social Dynamics. He is a Fellow of OPUS and an the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Partisans in an Uncertain World: the Psychoanalysis of Engagement (Free Association Books, ) and Poli