Books in the Tavistock Clinic Series series

How does an organisation influence its trajectory? How do organisations avoid the pull towards conservatism and protectionism associated with the developmental plateau found at the top of the curve? This book gives us something of an insight into this process within one organisation, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Argues that there are significant ways that the world has got tougher for the most vulnerable in our society. This book addresses the questions facing the survival of the vulnerable in society at a time of continuing uncertainties in local and global economic and political life.

Brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. This book outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, in Britain and abroad, in which it has been successfully applied.

Aims to bring alive the relevance and value of psychoanalytic concepts in supporting the core role of those working directly in services for people who are older. This book is suitable for analysts and psychotherapists concerned with old age and the application of psychoanalytic thinking in the public sector.

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence to chronic mental illnesses. This work offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind.