Tavistock Clinic
The Tavistock Clinic , named after its first location, Tavistock Square in Bloomsbury , London , England , is a well-known center for psychoanalytic therapy operated by the UK National Health Service (NHS).
The Tavistock Institute , founded in 1946 as an offshoot of the Tavistock Clinic, is now run as an independent research institute independent of the clinic.
Services
The Tavistock Clinic is the UK's first psychodynamic psychiatric outpatient clinic. She leads departments for adults, adolescents, children and families and offers advice to other institutions and in collaboration with the University of East London, postgraduate studies and courses for health professionals, social care and consulting.
history
The clinic was opened in 1920 by the psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller , who was influenced by the teachings of Jung and Freud, and developed under his direction into a psychotherapeutic competence center for the traumatic effects of war neurosis , also known as trench shock. The clinic has been run by the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust since the British NHS was founded in 1948 .
Right from the start, the clinic has promoted the development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the training of psychotherapists including specialized training in the therapy of children and adolescents as well as the broad application of psychoanalysis in psychiatric practice, politics and research in an institutional setting. This was an exceptional element in the UK healthcare system. The clinic offered a wide range of psychological therapies as well as psychoanalysis and holistic training, which led to a controversy with Ernest Jones , President of the British Psychoanalytic Society , who did not want psychoanalysts in the clinic.
This orientation of the clinic particularly benefited from the support of the reconstruction after the Second World War. During the war, the public became aware of the emotional needs of children affected by the war. The policy of mass evacuations of children from London fueled research and brought new insights into child development within the family, the important role of family relationships and personality disorders due to early separation and emotional deprivation . Training in child psychotherapy was initiated because of John Bowlby 's request that mentally impaired children should have access to psychotherapeutic treatment.
During the Second World War, some employees served in the army. In 1946, this interdisciplinary group founded the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) (now: The Tavistock Institute ) and turned to questions of organizational development and social change .
The Tavistock Clinic is now one of the world's leading centers for psychoanalytically based psychotherapy. With its three departments, Child and Family, Youth and Adult, it is one of the UK's most important educational institutions in these fields. The clinic has been located in The Tavistock Center in the Swiss Cottage district since 1967 .
Well-known employees and students
- Mary Ainsworth , American developmental psychologist and attachment researcher
- Michael Balint , Hungarian psychoanalyst
- Wilfred Bion , British psychoanalyst, representative of group analysis
- John Bowlby, vice director after World War II and founder of the Department for Children and Parents
- Ronald D. Laing , psychiatrist
- John Rawlings Rees , Medical Director before World War II
- James Robertson , along with Bowlby and Ainsworth, is considered to be the main founder and proponent of attachment theory
- Clara Thompson , American doctor, representative of neo-psychoanalysis
- Lily Pincus , family therapist
See also
literature
- Robert Gosling, Editor: Support, Innovation and Autonomy: Tavistock Clinic Golden Jubilee Papers, Tavistock Publications, London. 1973. Reviewed by David Leonard, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 9, Issue 2 June 1975, pages 123 - 129
- Eric Trist et al., The Tavistock Institute: origin and early years. Personal communication (pp. 1-30). New York: Pearl King, Academy of Management, 1982
- Pearl HM King: British analysts during World War II. Inter-disciplinary collaboration, International Review of Psychoanalysis, 16, 15-34, 1989