Dr. Michael A. Diamond is a political psychologist, psychoanalytic scholar, and organizational analyst. He teaches and writes on organizational analysis and change, and is a practicing organizational analyst. He has provided consultation to numerous Fortune 100 companies, federal and state governments, hospitals, medical schools, law enforcement agencies, Universities, and nonprofit organizations.

Diamond has published his scholarly writings in Human Relations, Organisational and Social Dynamics, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, American Review of Public Administration, Consulting Psychology Journal, Administration & Society, Administrative Theory and Praxis, Political Psychology, the Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Dynamics, the Personnel Journal, and the Harvard Business Review, among others. He was coeditor-in-chief of the American Review of Public Administration from 1987 to 1995 and is a member of the editorial board of Administration & Societyand associate editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and the journal Organisational and Social Dynamics. He is the author of The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity, published by Quorum Books of the Greenwood Publishing Group, (1993) and co-author of, The Human Costs of a Management Failure: Organizational Downsizing at General Hospital (1996) and Managing People During Stressful Times: The Psychologically Defensive Workplace (1997), both published by Quorum Books, Greenwood Publishing Group.

Diamond is a member of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and a founding member and past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), member of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and associate faculty member of the Organizational Consultation and Development program at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. Diamond was awarded the 1994 Harry Levinson Award for Excellence in Consulting Psychology from the American Psychological Association and received a 1999 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is also a recipient of the 2005 Faculty-Alumni Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

For a list of Dr. Diamond's publications, please visit Research & Publications.

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