Notes on Contributors

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

Manab Bose is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, trained in India and overseas. He has been engaged in clinical work for more than forty years with adolescents, couples, business management students, and senior business executives in India. He attended the Leicester Conference in 2002 and 2003 and has been the staff and director of several GR events in India since 2005. He teaches at a prestigious B-school in India, where he introduced GR as a key intervention in leadership studies. He also supervises interns in Sukrut and teaches an online seminar on psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is the publisher of Citta, the only publication on psychoanalytic reflections from India, now in it's sixth volume. Email:

Halina Brunning is a chartered clinical psychologist, freelance organisational consultant, and executive coach. She has published extensively on clinical and organisational issues, has edited several books for Karnac including Executive Coaching: Systems-Psychodynamic Perspective . She conceived the idea of a trilogy of books which examined the contemporary world through a psychoanalytic lens: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World , Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World , and Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability . This approach continued in her latest books co-written with Olya Khaleelee: Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics published by Phoenix and The Covid Trail: Psychodynamic Explorations . The latest book Sitting on a Suitcase published by Karnac was co-written with Olya Khaleelee and eighteen co