Böcker i Tavistock Clinic Series-serien

This book explores a wide spectrum of different addictive behaviours and some of the settings in which they are psychotherapeutically addressed. It focuses on how states of mind are managed through the addictive behaviour¿a way of self-medicating states of subjective distress and suffering.

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.

This book is concerned primarily with Klein's work with pre-latency children and aims to give these small children more of the voice today that Melanie Klein herself discovered.

How does an organisation influence its trajectory? How do organisations avoid the pull towards conservatism and protectionism associated with the developmental plateau found at the top of the curve? This book gives us something of an insight into this process within one organisation, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London, this title explores 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 family therapy.

Argues that there are significant ways that the world has got tougher for the most vulnerable in our society. This book addresses the questions facing the survival of the vulnerable in society at a time of continuing uncertainties in local and global economic and political life.

Brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. This book outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, in Britain and abroad, in which it has been successfully applied.

Aims to bring alive the relevance and value of psychoanalytic concepts in supporting the core role of those working directly in services for people who are older. This book is suitable for analysts and psychotherapists concerned with old age and the application of psychoanalytic thinking in the public sector.

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence to chronic mental illnesses. This work offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind.