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Turning the Tide: The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs book cover

1st Edition

Turning the Tide The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs

Edited By Rael Meyerowitz, David Bell Copyright 2018
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has also adopted systemic family therapy as a theoretical model and a clinical approach to family problems. The Clinic is now the largest training institution in Britain for mental health, providing... Read more
SERIES EDITORS PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- foreword by Edna O'Shaughnessy -- Introduction: against the tide /@David Bell -- Finding a way in: the work of the Fitzjohn's Unit /@Birgit Kleeberg -- Looking both ways: the role of the administrator in the Fitzjohn's Unit /@Crispin Lane & Camilla Nicholls -- The emergence of emotional meaning: a journey through delusional symptoms Hiroshi /@Amino

Biography

Rael Meyerowitz was born in South Africa. He is an adult psychotherapist and psychoanalyst (member of the British Psychoanalytical Society since 2004), having embarked on clinical training in mid-life, after an earlier career as an academic in a range of humanities disciplines and on several continents. In addition to working clinically at the Tavistock and in private practice, he teaches a variety of psychoanalytic subjects on the Tavistock's adult psychotherapy training, at University College London, the British Psychoanalytic Foundation, and elsewhere.

David Bell is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he directs the Fitzjohn's Unit, a specialist service for serious/complex psychological disorders. He is visiting Professorial Fellow, Birkbeck College, London and past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Throughout his career he has been deeply involved in the relation between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and politics, and has made numerous contributions in these areas. He is one of the UK’s leading psychiatric experts in asylum/human rights. He is contributing editor of Reason and Passion and Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective.

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