1st Edition

Celebrating 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman

Edited By Paul Cundy, Jessica Yakeley Copyright 2023
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

2020 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the first patient being seen at the world-renowned Tavistock Clinic. Over the following year, the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust marked this centenary with a series of events celebrating its history and exploring issues of identity, relationships and society. This book is a collection of essays from these celebrations, which describe the... Read more

Introduction: Celebrating 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman

Paul Cundy

1. The Tavistock trauma service centenary lecture

Joanne Stubley

2. Being safe and being brave: new thoughts on trauma, and adaptations to technique

Graham Music

3. Trauma and abuse

Judith Trowell

4. In the footsteps of Bick: continuing the legacy of infant observation

Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria

5. Tavistock Centenary: the Tavistock Autism service over four decades

Sue Reid, Anne Alvarez, Nechama Polak and Myooran Canagaratnam

6. Shapes of gender identity: three stories with impact

Domenico Di Ceglie

7. Between partnering and parenting: psychoanalytic approaches to working with parental couples

Andrew Balfour

8. Decolonising psychotherapy. Racism and the psychoanalytic profession

Helen Morgan

9. Pandemic: challenges in care and recovery

Dinesh Sinha

10. Under fire in the consulting room

Carine Minne

11. The Fitzjohn’s Unit

David Bell and Birgit Kleeberg

12. ‘When I nod my head, hit it’: leadership and followership in the orchestral environment

Lydia Hartland-Rowe

Biography

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.