Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: the Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics

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'Nature dictates that as individuals we are conceived, are born, and then at some point later die. The shape of the arc that we follow, involving growth and development with eventual decline, is something that we might all like to influence. It has been argued that the same basic curve, however, is followed by societies, civilisations and indeed organisations. 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?. I think that in this book Professor Alessandra Lemma has given us something of an insight into this process within one organisation, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The work of the Trust is now broad. Training and education makes up almost half of the activity, while Child and Adolescent mental Health Services over half of the clinical work.;Part I As we are now -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Talk talk: theories and practices for turbulent times -- chapter 2 A plurality of just answers -- part II Psychoanalytic interventions with young adults and adults -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 3 Time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults -- chapter 4 The Young People's Consultation Services: a model of engagement -- chapter 5 Complexity in primary care -- chapter 6 Treatment continuity in discontinuous worlds -- chapter 7 Picking up a log from both ends: couple work in the Tavistock tradition -- part III Innovations in adult mental health care -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 8 Treating the untreatable: the evolution of a psychoanalytically informed service for antisocial personality disorder -- chapter 9 Where Internet was, there ego shall be: community and well-being in the digital world -- chapter 10 Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT): developing a new intervention for depression.