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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.

63 Series Titles


Researching the Unconscious Principles of Psychoanalytic Method

Researching the Unconscious: Principles of Psychoanalytic Method

1st Edition

By Michael Rustin
February 28, 2019

Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences that are relevant to psychoanalysis, both as a clinical practice and as a human science. These include the debates initiated by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions,...

Turning the Tide The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs

Turning the Tide: The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs

1st Edition

Edited By Rael Meyerowitz, David Bell
October 25, 2018

Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has also adopted systemic family therapy as a theoretical model and a clinical approach to family ...

On Adolescence

On Adolescence

1st Edition

By Margot Waddell
September 05, 2018

Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic, transitional world between childhood and adulthood is especially fraught, these days, with the assaults ...

Conjunctions Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society

Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society

1st Edition

By Andrew Cooper
June 27, 2018

Conjunctions engages separately and connectively with therapeutic social work practice, psychoanalytically informed research methods and philosophy, as well as contemporary human service organisational cultures and predicaments, and the societal dynamics affecting social work and psychoanalysis. ...

Melanie Klein Revisited Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children

Melanie Klein Revisited: Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children

1st Edition

By Susan Sherwin-White
June 28, 2017

While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary ...

Doing Things Differently The Influence of Donald Meltzer on Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice

Doing Things Differently: The Influence of Donald Meltzer on Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Margaret Cohen, Alberto Hahn
March 10, 2017

Doing Things Differently celebrates the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic for many years. The book represents the harvest of Meltzer's thinking and teaching, and covers such topics as dimensionality in primitive ...

Talking Cure Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

1st Edition

By David Taylor
January 20, 2017

This book is written to accompany a BBC 2 TV series about the Tavistock Clinic, an NHS mental health institute which treats patients and trains professionals. The programmes of the series are about therapy — talking — as a way of dealing with difficulties that life can entail....

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression A Treatment Manual

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual

1st Edition

By Jocelyn Catty, Simon Cregeen, Carol Hughes, Nick Midgley, Maria Rhode, Margaret Rustin
November 01, 2016

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven sessions for parents or carers, designed so that it can be delivered within a public mental health system, ...

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

1st Edition

By Marcus Evans
April 12, 2016

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping frontline staff to "tune in" to their patients' unconscious communications or the "psychotic wavelength"....

Couple Dynamics Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

Couple Dynamics: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

1st Edition

By Aleksandra Novakovic
November 27, 2015

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "couple" in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group....

Towards Belonging Negotiating New Relationships for Adopted Children and Those in Care

Towards Belonging: Negotiating New Relationships for Adopted Children and Those in Care

1st Edition

By Andrew Briggs
April 30, 2015

This book explores what a sense of belonging—its components and state—means for the adopted children and those in care. It contributes to reader's understanding of these children's emotional well-being, mental health, and potential for success in life through education and beyond....

Social Defences Against Anxiety Explorations in a Paradigm

Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm

1st Edition

By David Armstrong
November 19, 2014

This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety. It explores this theory as a generative paradigm, capable both of theoretical extension and of empirical application to different institutional settings....

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