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List of contents
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- I As we are now -- Introduction /Alessandra Lemma -- 1 Talk talk: theories and practices for turbulent times /Andrew Cooper -- 2 A plurality of just answers /Bernadette Wren & EZZie Kavner -- II Psychoanalytic interventions with young adults and adults -- Introduction /Alessandra Lemma -- 3 Time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults /Stephen Briggs & Louise Lyon -- 4 The Young People’s Consultation Services: a model of engagement /Linda Young & Frank Lowe -- 5 Complexity in primay care /Brian Rock & Anca Carrington -- 6 Treatment continuity in discontinuous worlds /Carine Mtnne -- 7 Picking up a log from both ends: couple work in the Tavistock tradition /Joanna Rosenthali -- III Innovations in adult mental health care -- Introduction /Alessandra Lemma -- 8 Treating the untreatable: the evolution of a psychoanalytically informed service for antisocial personality disorder /Jessica YakeZey -- 9 Where Internet was, there ego shall be: community and well-being in the digital world /Richard Graham -- 10 Dynamic kite Personal therapy (DIT): developing a new intervention for depression /Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, & Peter Fonagy -- INDEX.
About the author
Alessandra Lemma is the Unit Director, Psychological Therapies Development Unit, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and the Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research Centre, University College London. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, and Honorary Professor of Psychological Therapies at Essex University. She is the Regional Editor (London) of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series (Routledge). She has published several books and papers on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, the body, and trauma. Alessandra Lemma is also a Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis.
Summary
This volume succeeds in epitomizing aspects of the life and work of the two Clinics that comprise the Tavistock and Portrman National health service foundation trust. It includes both short- and long-term interventions, from forensic psychiatry to marital therapy and primary-care cooperation.
