Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970 this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and related innovations after the First World War, the Tavistock Clinic offered treatment, training and research facilities in the field of neurosis, child guidance and later on group relations.
Dr Dicks, who had been associated for nearly forty years with the work and personalities that helped to develop the Tavistock venture, describes the struggles and capacity for survival of the clinic. He shows how, belonging neither to the older classical psychiatry nor to orthodox psychoanalysis, and suspect to both, the Clinic nevertheless became increasingly used by the rest of the profession as a psychotherapeutic resource. Dr Dicks describes the influence of the Tavistock on the medical, psychological and social work scene both before and after the Second World War, and assesses its achievements a
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations. Foreword by Sir Leslie Farrer. Author’s Preface 1. Introductory Outline 2. Origins 3. Consolidation (1923-32) 4. The Search for a New Institutional Structure 5. The Period of Expansion 6. The Tavistock in War 7. ‘Operation Phoenix’ 8. The Tavistock and the State 9. The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (by Sidney G. Gray) 10. Further Differentiation and Integration 11. History Becomes the Present 12. Concluding Reflections. Appendixes. Index.
