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2020 marked one-hundredth anniversary of the first patient being seen at world-renowned Tavistock Clinic. This book is a collection of essays which describe historical and contemporary work of various departments and services and consider how to draw on this heritage to provide valuable responses to current and future challenges.
List of contents
Introduction: Celebrating 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman 1. The Tavistock trauma service centenary lecture 2. Being safe and being brave: new thoughts on trauma, and adaptations to technique 3. Trauma and abuse 4. In the footsteps of Bick: continuing the legacy of infant observation 5. Tavistock Centenary: the Tavistock Autism service over four decades 6. Shapes of gender identity: three stories with impact 7. Between partnering and parenting: psychoanalytic approaches to working with parental couples 8. Decolonising psychotherapy. Racism and the psychoanalytic profession 9. Pandemic: challenges in care and recovery 10. Under fire in the consulting room 11. The Fitzjohn’s Unit 12. ‘When I nod my head, hit it’: leadership and followership in the orchestral environment
About the author
Paul Cundy is a consultant adult psychotherapist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Lead at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, Leicester, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Jessica Yakeley is a consultant psychiatrist in forensic psychotherapy, Director of the Portman Clinic, and Director of Medical Education at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. She is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, London, UK and Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Summary
2020 marked one-hundredth anniversary of the first patient being seen at world-renowned Tavistock Clinic. This book is a collection of essays which describe historical and contemporary work of various departments and services and consider how to draw on this heritage to provide valuable responses to current and future challenges.
