“When I nod my head, you hit it”: Leading and following even when it hurts

Introduction This presentation and discussion will explore leading and following in music settings with the Principal Percussionist of the ENO orchestra. What can we learn about organisational life from the work and craft of the orchestral musician, and the complex management of authority over the instrument, over others, and in […]

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Gina Southgate - Dyptich

Attachment and the Tavistock: A Story

By Dr Myooran Canagaratnam ‘When people start writing they think they’ve got to write something definitive . . . I think that is fatal. The mood to write in is ‘This is quite an interesting story I’ve got to tell. I hope someone will be interested. Anyway it’s the best […]

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Gina Southgate - Dyptich

Michael Balint: A Tavistock Centenary Talk

by Dr Andrew Elder, 25 September 2020 Michael Balint was a dominant figure in that particularly productive era of the Tavistock’s history just after the Second World War. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, the son of a GP. After qualifying in medicine in 1918, he […]

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Gina Southgate - Dyptich

Women Pioneers at the Tavistock and Portman

(or ‘What I meant to say at: The 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman: open day for staff, students, alumni, and friends’) Author: Glenn GosslingBased on the presentation on 27 September 2020 Introduction Over the last year or so I have been researching the histories of the Tavistock and […]

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Gina Southgate - Dyptich

“Nobody thought they were doing anything wrong”

At the end of September we launched ‘100 years of the Tavistock and Portman’ with award-winning poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay. Sheena Webb Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Service Manager and Joint Clinical Lead for our Pan-London Family Drug and Alcohol Court Team reflects on the talk and its implications […]

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From then to now

By Irene Henderson, Race Diversity Champion at the Tavistock and Portman. Join us in celebrating the centenary of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.  Originally the Tavistock opened its doors on the 27th September 1920, the Portman Clinic opened its doors on 18th September 1933 and both organisations became […]

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