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.
Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Debbie Hindle, Susan Sherwin-White
April 30, 2014
This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the first time an account of the work on brothers and sisters by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Anna Freud, whose pioneering and vital work on sibling ...
Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond
1st Edition
By Frank Lowe
October 18, 2013
This book promotes curiosity, exploration and learning about difference by paying as much attention as to how we learn (process) as to what we learn (content). It shares the thinking, experience and learning of staff at the Tavistock Clinic, the premier psychotherapy training institution in the NHS....
Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation
1st Edition
By Simonetta M.G. Adamo, Margaret Rustin
September 25, 2013
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud's observation of his grandson's game with the cotton-reel onwards. This book describes the practice of ...
Consultations in Dynamic Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Peter Hobson
July 11, 2013
This book illustrates clinical, psychoanalytic approaches to understanding people in depth, even when breadth of understanding is severely constricted by the brevity of a consultation. It considers the changing times in which psychoanalytic psychotherapists carry on consulting....
Living on the Border: Psychotic Processes in the Individual, the Couple, and the Group
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bell, Aleksandra Novakovic
May 01, 2013
This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social ...
Addictive States of Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Marion Bower, Robert Hale, Heather Wood
January 01, 2013
This chapter, written by a psychiatrist working with people with severe and complex addictions, sets the scene. We are provided with a graphic account of the multiple problems—physical, psychological, social, financial—of someone with severe drug addiction, where sex working and the risks of ...
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Trowell, Gillian Miles
December 31, 2012
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from depression could be helped using brief focused psychodynamic psychotherapy together with parent work and...
Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics
1st Edition
By Alessandra Lemma
December 31, 2012
‘This challenging and ambitious book captures the variety and richness of contemporary clinical developments in the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in relation to work with young adults. It sets these developments in lytic and systemic principles that are the centra up over their long and ...
Waiting To Be Found: Papers on Children in Care
1st Edition
By Andrew Briggs
September 01, 2012
This book explores the importance of relationship between child and care system, child and clinician or other practitioner, practitioners with practitioners, or individuals with the organisation in which they work. It presents the analytic and multifaceted centrality of relationship concept....
Engaging with Complexity: Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Harris, Sue Rendall, Sadagh Nashat
December 31, 2011
Children and young people spend a great deal of their time in schools and other education settings. Consequently those working in such contexts have a huge impact and influence on the development, experiences and thinking of the children and young people with whom they interact. This book ...
Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care
1st Edition
By Timothy Dartington
December 31, 2010
Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book The author explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to ...
The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy: Principles and Practice
1st Edition
By Caroline Garland
December 31, 2010
This book examines the ways in which we make use of the Group Relations model, set up in the experimental field of the Group Relations conferences, to understand and modify the functioning of working groups. It is based on a psychoanalytic knowledge of the psychosocial development of human beings....