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.
Working Below the Surface: The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Huffington, William Halton, David Armstrong, Jane Pooley
December 31, 2004
The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the dynamics of the workplace. The intention is to identify and explore some of the key themes that have...
Acquainted with the Night: Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination
1st Edition
By Hamish Canham, Carole Satyamurti
December 31, 2003
This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. It could be argued that there is a particular affinity between poetry and psychoanalysis, in that both pay close attention to the precise meanings of ...
Sent Before My Time: A Child Psychotherapist's View of Life on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
1st Edition
By Margaret Cohen
December 31, 2003
Sent Before My Time is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines the relationships between the babies, the parents and the staff....
Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
1st Edition
By Margot Waddell
December 31, 2002
This second edition of the remarkable Inside Lives (expanded with a chapter on the last years of the life cycle) provides a perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development. Following the major developmental phases from infancy to old age, the author...
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
1st Edition
By Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin
December 31, 2002
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle understanding of conscious and unconscious ...
Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation
1st Edition
By Andrew Briggs
December 31, 2002
Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field, commemorating the centenary of Esther Bick and the unique contribution she has made to psychoanalytic theory. As part of the prestigious Tavistock Clinic Series, this is an ...
Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home
1st Edition
Edited
By Renos K. Papadopoulos
December 31, 2002
This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the psychotherapeutic perspective. It explores the delicate balance between accepting the resilience of refugees ...
Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
1st Edition
By Caroline Garland
December 31, 2002
Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, ...
Assessment in Child Psychotherapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Emanuela Quagliata, Margaret Rustin
December 31, 2000
This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and wider school and community context. Individual ...
Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective
1st Edition
By David Bell
December 31, 1999
This book provides an extensive introduction and theoretical background to the field, situating psychoanalysis itself in contemporary culture. It shows the relevance of psychoanalysis beyond the consulting room to the understanding of human affairs in general....
Facing It Out: Clinical Perspectives on Adolescent Disturbance
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Anderson, Anna Dartington
December 31, 1998
Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas of adolescence, but it also gives a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the ...
Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
1st Edition
By Gianna Williams
December 31, 1997
Klein’s model of projective and introjective processes and Bion’s theory of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in much clinical work. in a highly imaginative development of these models of thought, the distinguished clinician gianna williams, one ...