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Freud in [1] in his paper "Group psychology and the Analysis of the ego" described the split between the individual psychology and the group psychology, as "fictitious". This is a book about the I application i of psychoanalytic and systemic ideas to the understanding of group and organization dynamics, including our own contribution, whether as members or "consultants", to the dynamics that unfold. In the chapter "On change and the resistance to change", Obholzer makes a simple but very prescient observation concerning the willingness to consider and explore how ideas and solutions necessarily change over time regardless of whether one is a clinician, a consultant or a leader; with reference to our own training, Obholzer writes: in training for our professional roles we learn about the "correct" way of going about things. [Extracted from the article]