1st Edition

Talking Cure Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

By David Taylor Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This book is written to accompany a BBC 2 TV series about the Tavistock Clinic, an NHS mental health institute which treats patients and trains professionals. The programmes of the series are about therapy — talking — as a way of dealing with difficulties that life can entail.

Foreword -- Beginning of the Mind -- Play -- Are Children Innocent? -- How Does Growing Up Happen? -- What Causes the Mind? -- Love -- Dreaming -- What Is a Family? -- Groups -- Work -- Food for the Mind -- Attitudes to Normality and Psychiatric Illness -- Mental Distress and Mental Illness -- Therapy -- Registering Time -- Age -- The Future -- Useful Information

Biography

David Taylor is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Clinical Research Sub-Committee.