Notes on Contributors

David Armstrong is a social psychologist and associate consultant at Tavistock Consulting. He is the author of Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy, a collection of papers edited by Robert French and published by Karnac in 2005, and a co-editor with Michael Rustin of Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm (Karnac, ).

Tim Dartington has over fifty years’ experience as a social scientist, first at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and then as a lecturer and consultant at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London, and has worked internationally as a director and consultant to group relations conferences. His doctorate explored vulnerability and the management of dependency in health and social care systems, published as Managing Vulnerability (Karnac, ). His current interest is in the role of the wise elder in an ageing society.

Jonathan Gosling is emeritus professor of leadership at Exeter University in the UK. He has taught and researched leadership for over thirty years and is now an independent academic and consultant at . He runs a series of “One Planet Leadership” round tables for experienced managers and hosts writing retreats in lovely places. He acts as mentor to organisation development consulting firms in Africa and Europe.

R. D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Together with a private psychoanalytic practice he worked for thirty years in the National Health Service and subsequently as professor for fifteen years in the University of Essex, UK. He has written widely on Kleinian and comparative psychoanalysis, and the inspiration of psychoanalysis for other academic disciplines and practices.

Bryan Maguire, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, is chair of the Irish Group Relations Organisation. After graduating from the University of California, San Francisco, he lectured and researched in psychology i