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Celebrating 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman
No full text2020 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 historical and contemporary work of various departments and services, and consider how to draw on this heritage to provide valuable responses to current and future challenges.
The twelve chapters describe the organisation's thinking, educational and clinical work with children, young people and their parents, adults, organisations and wider society, documenting the influence of clinicians such as Balint, Bick, Bowlby, Garland, Glover, Malan and Pailthorpe. The authors outline the development of services for people who have experienced trauma, neurodiversity, complex and enduring mental health problems, and paraphilias or forensic behaviours. They address issues such as gender identity, the impact of couple relationship difficulties on parenting, systemic racism within the psychotherapeutic professions and the societal health inequalities revealed by COVID-19. The book concludes with a chapter exploring leadership and followership in organisations and how this can be applied to work in the NHS.
This book was originally published as two special issues of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Drawing on personal experiences when working with babies and their families: Translucent practice in a neonatal intensive care unit
No full textThis autoethnographically-influenced article offers some thoughts on sharing our own experiences with the people we work with in a health context in the service of building authentic and meaningful therapeutic relationships
Rolling with defences: A space to think: An exploration of a bounded reflective group for approved mental health professionals
Get PDFThis research project examines the application of a bounded reflective group (RPG) when applied to a group of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs). Learning through my own experience of an RPG’s ability to enliven and engage me as an experienced practitioner and manager, my curiosity as a researcher was piqued. Previous researchers have signposted the importance of good supervision for this challenging role, yet there has been no formal interrogation of such spaces (Gregor, 2010, and others). As the manager, I introduced and led an RPG model and simultaneously as a psycho-social researcher, I critically examined its application and impact over a twelve-month period. I have drawn on a blend of methodological approaches which included participant psychoanalytic observation and Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI). I used three data sets; first, reflective group sessions, including case presentation, discussion and researcher observations; secondly, 1:1 interviews; thirdly, group interviews. Each set was methodically gathered via audio recording, subsequently transcribed by the researcher, and later, taken to supervision for interpretive analysis. I identified themes which emerged, and in turn these informed the research questions, helping to focus my field of enquiry. In addition, the paradigm of ‘thinking in cases (Forrester, 2017) was applied. The research findings revealed how the RPG helped to strengthen and deepen the relationship to their professional selves and work with patients. The overlap of sole group leader and manager, while not ideal, richly conveys just how much there is to be gained by having a safe space to support the AMHP workforce with the emotional contagion of the work. It is hoped that these insights will inform social work practice, and future research is also discussed
Laverne Antrobus on FYI. 12 March 2022, Sky. [Starts at 12:44]
No full textThis week on FYI: For Your Info, the award-winning weekly news show from Sky Kids, as the war in Ukraine continues, we hear from a teenage cancer patient who was trapped in a hospital in the capital city, Kyiv. And, we meet Ukrainian children who live in the UK that are helping refugees. Plus, we investigate why children in Russia are being told there isn’t a war
A moment that changed me: A scuba dive gone horribly wrong taught me the dangers of complacency
No full textI was working on a boat on the Great Barrier Reef, when two crewmates began a 20-minute dive. Hours later, with rescue helicopters circling, there was still no sign of them
Between partnering and parenting: Psychoanalytic approaches to working with parental couples
No full textTrauma and EMDR: The Wellbeing Lab with Will Young
No full textThis episode is a biggie... I'm discussing the vast subject of trauma and also how EMDR therapy can help those who've experienced it.
My first guest is Jo Stubley, a Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst (all the P’s!). We delve deep into what trauma actually is and why it sticks around. Then I speak to Catriona Morten who is a Psychotherapist and an EMDR practitioner. She explains why and how EMDR therapy works
Bridging the gap: Developing a thinking space for refugees
No full textA partnership with the British Red Cross (BRC) and the Trauma Service led to Barnard and Jones developing a model of a small team of therapists working alongside BRC caseworkers to see asylum seekers who would otherwise have struggled to access therapeutic services. After an introduction by Stubley, which sets the scene for the work, the authors focus on Bion’s notion of containment as a way of describing the complexity of the work and what is required of and by the therapists to offer it