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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


Sibling Matters A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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