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    The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision

    Editors: Margot Waddell and Sebastian Kraemer

    £23.99 – £90.00

    A fascinating review of Tavistock development from the early post-war years to the current time, containing original insights from past and present staff.

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    Editors

    Margot Waddell and Sebastian Kraemer

    ISBN

    9781912691715

    Format

    Large Format Paperback, Hardback, e-Book, Paperback & e-Book

    Page Extent

    406

    Publication Date

    September 2020

    Subject Areas

    Biography, Bionian Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Psychoanalysis

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    Gathering together an incredible array of contributors from the past century of the Tavistock to cover all aspects of amazing work they do. With chapters from David Armstrong, James Astor, Andrew Balfour, Fred Balfour, Sara Barratt, David Bell, Sandy Bourne, Wesley Carr, Andrew Cooper, Gwyn Daniel, Dilys Daws, Domenico di Ceglie, Emilia Dowling, Andrew Elder, Caroline Garland, Peter Griffiths, Rob Hale, Sarah Helps, Beth Holgate, Juliet Hopkins, Marcus Johns, Sebastian Kraemer, James Krantz, Mary Lindsay, Julian Lousada, Louise Lyon, David Malan, Gillian Miles, Lisa Miller, Mary Morgan, Nell Nicholson, Anton Obholzer, Paul Pengelly, Maria Rhode, Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin, Edward R. Shapiro, Valerie Sinason, Jenny Sprince, John Steiner, Jon Stokes, David Taylor, Judith Trowell, Margot Waddell, and Gianna Williams

    The Tavistock Century traces the developmental path taken from the birth of a progressive and inspirational institution. From their wartime and post-war experience, John Rickman, Wilfred Bion, Eric Trist, Isabel Menzies, John Bowlby, Esther Bick, Michael Balint, and James Robertson left us a legacy of innovation based on intimate observation of human relatedness.

    The book contains entries across the full range of disciplines in the lifecycle, extending, for example, from research to group relations, babies, adolescents, couples, even pantomime. It will be of enormous value to anyone working in the helping professions; clinicians, social workers, health visitors, GPs, teachers, as well as social science scholars and a host of others who are directly or indirectly in touch with the Tavistock wellspring.

    About the editors

    About the editors


    Margot Waddell
    , PhD, is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis where she is currently the Chair of Publications. She has a background in Classics and literature and took a PhD at Cambridge on George Eliot’s novels. She is a child analyst and worked for many years as a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She co-edits the Tavistock Clinic Book series and has published widely. Her book Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality was published by Karnac in 2002. In 1994 her Understanding Twelve to Fourteen Year Olds was published (reprinted in 2005 by Jessica Kingsley). Most recently, in 2018, she published On Adolescence: Inside Stories (Routledge).

     

     

    After a first degree in philosophy, Sebastian Kraemer qualified in medicine in 1970. He trained in paediatrics in Glasgow, Manchester and London, then in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic, London. From 1980 he was a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic (until 2003) and in the paediatric department at the Whittington Hospital London (until 2015). He is an honorary consultant at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust and continues to write, teach and work with staff in NHS and children’s services.

    Contents

    Contents

    Preface by Margot Waddell
    Foreword: The Tavistock enigma by Anton Obholzer

    Part I
    The Tavistock legacy

    CHAPTER ONE
    Challenge, change and sabotage
    Anton Obholzer

    CHAPTER TWO
    What lies beneath
    James Astor

    CHAPTER THREE
    Psychoanalysis, social science, and the Tavistock tradition
    David Armstrong and Michael Rustin

    CHAPTER FOUR
    Research at the Tavistock
    Michael Rustin and David Armstrong

    CHAPTER FIVE
    “Mummy’s gone away and left me behind”
    James Robertson at the Tavistock Clinic
    Mary Lindsay

    CHAPTER SIX
    The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, 1920–2020
    Brett Kahr

    CHAPTER SEVEN
    John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic
    Margaret Rustin

    CHAPTER EIGHT
    Balint Groups
    Andrew Elder

    CHAPTER NINE
    Alexis Brook in primary care
    Andrew Elder

    CHAPTER TEN
    Extending the reach of the “talking cure”
    Margaret Rustin

    Part II
    Pregnancy and under 5s

    CHAPTER ELEVEN
    The psychopathology of publications concerning reactions to stillbirths and neonatal deaths
    Sandy Bourne

    CHAPTER TWELVE
    Parent–infant psychotherapy at a baby clinic
    Dilys Daws

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN
    Service for under-fives in the child and family department at the Tavistock: short-term applications of psychoanalytic practice and infant observation
    Lisa Miller

    Part III
    Children and Adolescents

    CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    Child Guidance Training Centre 1929–1984
    Juliet Hopkins
    with additional material from Marcus Johns, Judith Trowell and Gillian Miles

    CHAPTER FIFTEEN
    Gloucester House: a story of endurance, inspiration, and innovation
    Nell Nicholson
    with added material from Gillian Miles and Marcus Johns, together with his addendum

    CHAPTER SIXTEEN
    A foothold in paediatrics
    Sebastian Kraemer

    CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
    Early psychoanalytic approaches to autism at the Tavistock
    Maria Rhode

    CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
    Eating Disorders Workshop—Tavistock Adolescent Department
    Gianna Williams

    CHAPTER NINETEEN
    The creation of a service for children and adolescents facing gender identity issues
    Domenico di Ceglie

    CHAPTER TWENTY
    The establishment of the Young People’s Counselling Service
    Fred Balfour

    CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
    Facing it out: the Adolescent Department
    Margot Waddell

    Part IV
    Couples and families

    CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
    A brief history of Tavistock Relationships
    Andrew Balfour

    CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
    Tavistock Relationships and the growth of couple psychoanalysis 1988–2019: a personal memoir
    Mary Morgan

    CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
    Family therapy across the decades; evolution and discontinuous change
    Sarah Helps, Sara Barratt and Gwyn Daniel 

    Part V
    Working with adults

    CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
    Brief psychotherapy: practice and research
    David Malan

    CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
    The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS)
    David Taylor

    CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
    Working at the Tavistock Clinic Adult Department 1972–1997
    John Steiner

    CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
    The Adult Department
    Julian Lousada

    CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
    The Adult Department: a group at work
    Caroline Garland

    CHAPTER THIRTY
    The Fitzjohn’s Unit
    David Bell

    Part VI
    Psychology, social work, and nursing

    CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
    The psychology discipline
    Louise Lyon and Emilia Dowling

    CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
    Holding tensions: social work and the Tavistock
    Andrew Cooper

    CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
    Nursing at the Tavistock
    Peter Griffiths

    Part VII
    Consultation, court, and organisations

    CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
    Child protection and the courts
    Judith Trowell

    CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
    Autonomic countertransference: the psychopathic mind and the institution
    Rob Hale

    CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
    The Tavistock legacy in America: making sense of society
    Edward R. Shapiro and James Krantz

    CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
    Psychoanalytic thinking in organisational settings and the therapeutic community tradition
    Jenny Sprince

    CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
    Group relations and religion
    Wesley Carr

    CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
    The new landscape of leadership: living in radical uncertainty
    Jon Stokes

    Part VIII
    Performance, publications, and policy

    CHAPTER FORTY
    “Give them time”
    Pigeon holes and pasta—the making of a Tavistock TV programme
    Beth Holgate

    CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
    The Tavistock Gazette, pantomimes, and books
    Valerie Sinason

    CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
    Tavistock pantomimes
    Jenny Sprince

    CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
    The Tavistock Clinic Series
    Margot Waddell

    CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
    Tavistock policy seminars: a contained and disruptive space
    Andrew Cooper

    Afterword

    Soldiering on
    Sebastian Kraemer

    References
    Index

    9 reviews for The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision

    1. Dame Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize winner, 2009 and 2012 – 10/09/2020

      ‘There is much individual and collective wisdom between the lines of this thought-provoking collection, which charts the scope and evolution of the Tavistock’s pioneering and often controversial work, illustrates its influence on social policy, and tracks its innovative and often revelatory explorations of the human condition. For decades, the Tavistock’s work has helped shape how we see ourselves, as persons and as a society. Much thinking that has entered the mainstream emerged from its challenging, interdisciplinary research and practice, and this book shows stage by stage how a self-questioning approach generates new knowledge, and how theory can be humanely applied.’

    2. Dr Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury – 10/09/2020

      ‘Some institutions make their contribution not just by discharging duties or doing jobs, but by creating a culture. The impact of the Tavistock on our social assumptions, its impact on education, business, the understanding of the family, the life of the arts and, of course, therapy, demonstrates beyond any doubt that it has genuinely been a culturally defining presence. It has educated the listening and the noticing of generations; and in that sense has enlarged the personal and the social world for all of us. It is right that the hundred years of its remarkable life should be marked and celebrated in this welcome book.’

    3. Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Chair of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London – 10/09/2020

      ‘The “Tavi” – a name that is instantly recognisable wherever people get together to reflect on what makes us tick as people, institutions, and society. This delightful mixture of homage and history is a witty and wise tribute to the first hundred years of a remarkable place.’

    4. Andrew Briggs, International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications 23(3), 2020 – 29/03/2021

      ‘… a splendid publication that vividly portrays aspects of a remarkable institution’s history over the past 100 years. … It is such a highly enjoyable book that I read it end to end in one sitting, and since then I have repeatedly and selectively dipped into its forty-four chapters. … the editors and contributors have given us a brilliant and inspiring 2020 vision.’
      The full review is available here.

    5. Bob Hinshelwood, British Journal of Psychotherapy 37,2 (2021) 327–349 – 26/04/2021

      ‘Reviewing this extensive volume with the close and meticulous attention it deserves might take the next century of its existence! … Every chapter is a personal story with typically a degree of historical narrative, difficulties in the development of a now standard idea and then a flourishing outcome. … It is a book for browsing, for reminding oneself of the astonishing and comprehensive services from babies and mothers, through childhood and adolescence, to adults, marriages and couples, and taking in, on the way, court work, the TV series, the publication of introductory books, plus those for professionals, and not forgetting the legendary Tavistock pantomimes. … It does deserve this celebratory publication.’

    6. Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at the University of Cambridge, Therapy Today, March 2021 – 11/05/2021

      ‘This thought-provoking collection of essays … is wide ranging in scope, with sections on social work, nursing, court work, publications, government policy and much more. … Part history, part homage to a national institution … [it] is a tribute to the place that first put psychotherapy on the public agenda a century ago …’

    7. Stanley Ruszczynski, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 11(2) 201–205 (2021) – 01/10/2021

      ‘This book is nothing less than a historic document that maps out the continuing creation and development of both an extraordinary range of care services made available to people in psychological need, and of teaching and consultancy services for the various practitioners who work with those people.’ Read the full review here.

    8. Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at University of Cambridge – Therapy Today, March 2021 – 17/02/2022

      ‘There is hope and wisdom here from a multiplicity of voices […] This book is a tribute to the place that first put psychotherapy on the public agenda a century ago and has done so much to educate the way we listen and observe.’

    9. Thomas von Salis, Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (translated) – 16/12/2022

      ‘A book worth reading about a great history […] This book has now made the history and significance of the Tavi, including the mythical side (e.g. “Operation Phoenix”, the new life from the ashes of the Second World War) much clearer to me.’

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