1st Edition

Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic

By H.V. Dicks Copyright 1970
438 Pages
by Routledge

438 Pages
by Routledge

438 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1970 this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and related innovations after the First World War, the Tavistock Clinic offered treatment, training and research facilities in the field of neurosis, child guidance and later on group relations. Dr Dicks, who... Read more

List of Illustrations.  Foreword by Sir Leslie Farrer.  Author’s Preface  1. Introductory Outline  2. Origins  3. Consolidation (1923-32)  4. The Search for a New Institutional Structure  5. The Period of Expansion  6. The Tavistock in War  7. ‘Operation Phoenix’  8. The Tavistock and the State  9. The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (by Sidney G. Gray)  10. Further Differentiation and Integration  11. History Becomes the Present  12. Concluding Reflections.  Appendixes.  Index.

Biography

H.V. Dicks