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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


What Can the Matter Be? Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children

What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Bradley, Louise Emanuel
December 31, 2008

This book describes the particular approach to clinical work with under fives that has been developed at the Tavistock Clinic. It sets out new approaches in the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance in children, adolescents, and adults, both as individual and in families....

Work Discussion Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families

Work Discussion: Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families

1st Edition

By Jonathan Bradley, Margaret Rustin
October 29, 2008

This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic. It describes the evolution and contemporary practice of work discussion in relation to a wide range of professional work with children, adolescents, and families....

The Anorexic Mind

The Anorexic Mind

1st Edition

By Marilyn Lawrence
January 31, 2008

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, always underlining the point that while many of the ...

Looking into Later Life A Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age

Looking into Later Life: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression and Dementia in Old Age

1st Edition

By Rachael Davenhill
July 05, 2007

This book belongs to a long tradition at the Tavistock Clinic of work focused on the mental and emotional well-being of the elderly. It applies psychoanalytic thinking to areas that have generally attracted very little sustained attention over the years....

Creating New Families Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care

Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care

1st Edition

Edited By Jenny Kenrick, Caroline Lindsey, Lorraine Tollemache
December 31, 2006

Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is firmly rooted in an approach which values inter-disciplinary working for the contribution which the ...

The Learning Relationship Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education

The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education

1st Edition

By Biddy Youell
December 31, 2006

This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational the origins of learning in children’s early relationships and at factors which help and hinder the educational process in later childhood and adolescence. ...

Borderline Welfare Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare

Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare

1st Edition

By Andrew Cooper, Julian Lousada
December 31, 2005

Which 'forms of feeling' are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our understanding of borderline states of mind in ...

Organization in the Mind Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy

Organization in the Mind: Psychoanalysis, Group Relations and Organizational Consultancy

1st Edition

By David Armstrong, Robert French
December 31, 2005

The author has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the first time, his key writings in this area. This is essential reading for managers and leaders, as well as...

Reflecting on Reality Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care

Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care

1st Edition

Edited By John Launer, Sue Blake, Dilys Daws
December 31, 2005

Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book looks at how psychotherapists can make use of their skills in primary care. It examines how ...

Oedipus and the Couple

Oedipus and the Couple

1st Edition

By Francis Grier
December 31, 2004

This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps...

The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome

The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome

1st Edition

Edited By Trudy Klauber, Maria Rhode
December 31, 2004

This is the first book on the psychoanalytic treatment of children, young people and adults with Asperger’s syndrome. It includes multidisciplinary contributions on psychiatric perspectives and psychological theories of the condition. There is an overview of relevant psychoanalytic theory, and ...

Unexpected Gains Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities

Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities

1st Edition

Edited By David Simpson, Lynda Miller
December 31, 2004

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited counselling. The papers collected here have evolved from the work of the pioneering Learning ...

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