R. D. Hinshelwood is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was previously Clinical Director of The Cassel Hospital and currently is Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Clinical Klein (1995). He has written widely on therapeutic communities, and the psychoanalysis of organizations (Thinking About Institutions (2001)); and published a book on psychoanalysis and ethics, Therapy or Coercion (1997).