1st Edition

Talking Cure Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

By David Taylor Copyright 2017
    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.