Tavistock Clinic Series
About the Book Series
Founding Editor: Margot Waddell
The aim of the Tavistock Clinic Series is to make available to the reading public the clinical, theoretical, and research work that is most influential at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The Series sets out new approaches in the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance in children, adolescents, and adults, both as individuals and in families.
Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Hume, Helen Barker
May 13, 2025
This book examines the learning process involved in becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust through the lens of both teachers and trainees. The book describes the relevant history at the Tavistock and how ...
Exploring Psychoanalytic Concepts through Culture, the Arts and Contemporary Life: Learning from Observation and Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Lush, Kate Robertson
April 24, 2025
This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life. Many of us love to read poetry and novels and enjoy the performing arts. All of us take part in contemporary life. But how might a psychoanalytic ...
Perspectives from a Psych-Oncology Team Working with Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer: Thrown Off Course
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Elfer
March 31, 2023
Exploring the work of a Psych-Oncology Team in an inpatient and outpatient setting, this powerful, interesting, and engaging book is about teenagers and young adults diagnosed with cancer. As part of the few multidisciplinary teams of this type in the United Kingdom, the authors offer helpful ...
Mourning and Metabolization: Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss
1st Edition
By Rael Meyerowitz
November 30, 2022
By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary studies and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to thinking theoretically about loss and how we deal with it. Rael Meyerowitz conceptualizes the work ...
Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Stubley, Linda Young
December 22, 2021
The new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges that need to be grappled with, since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to understand the impact and aftermath of traumatic experiences and, crucially, how to work with those ...
Group Relations and Other Meditations: Psychoanalytic Explorations on the Uncertainties of Experiential Learning
1st Edition
By Carlos Sapochnik
September 30, 2021
This book examines the Tavistock tradition of using group relations conferences as temporary training organizations for groups and institutions, and how those can inform and enrich the theory and practice of experiential learning more generally. First, this book analyses the structures, rituals, ...
Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools: Tavistock Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Argent
September 14, 2021
This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools. The book begins by looking at children’s emotional life during the primary school years and what can disrupt ordinary, ...
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head
1st Edition
Edited
By Emil Jackson, Andrea Berkeley
July 31, 2020
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership—in particular, the felt experience of life as a headteacher. It describes the pressures and rewards of the role, together with some of the ways that school ...
A for Adoption: An Exploration of the Adoption Experience for Families and Professionals
1st Edition
By Alison Roy
May 20, 2020
The experience of adoption—both adopting and being adopted—can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and individuals facing these complex processes and challenges. Drawing on both a psychoanalytic, ...
Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity
1st Edition
Edited
By Leezah Hertzmann, Juliet Newbigin
September 16, 2019
Sexuality and Gender Now uses a psychoanalytic approach to arrive at a more informed view of the experience and relationships of those whose sexuality and gender may not align with the heterosexual "norm". This book confronts the heteronormative bias dominant in psychoanalysis, using a combination ...
Therapeutic Approaches with Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention
1st Edition
By Jenifer Wakelyn
August 23, 2019
Therapeutic Approaches for Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable to psychological and attachment difficulties. Case studies explore the potential for ...
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy: Findings from Qualitative Research
1st Edition
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By Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin
June 21, 2019
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst, vivid in their description of the ...