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 […]
Read More by William Halton Based on a talk given at a Trust scientific meeting: ‘Group Relations at the Tavistock: Where from and where to?’ on 11 May 2020. Group Relations owes its origin to Kurt Lewin, a gestalt psychologist from Germany who emigrated to the United States in 1933. Lewin formulated […]
Read More 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 […]
Read More How our concept of discipline changed 1920-2020 By Sebastian Kraemer A hundred years ago – whether bringing up children or training soldiers – discipline simply meant doing what you were told, with the possibility of punishment if you did not. I tell a story about a few of the Tavistock […]
Read More (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 […]
Read More 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 […]
Read MoreBy Dinesh Sinha, Andrew Williams, Myooran Canagaratnam, Elizabeth VanHorn The Trust centenary has come at a point in our national life, when the crisis of the pandemic has exposed challenges to the foundations of social cohesion and delivery of healthcare. This is a situation remarkably similar to the period following […]
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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 […]
Read More By Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust The 27th September marks the 100th anniversary of when the first patient, a child, was seen at the Tavistock Clinic. While inevitably more muted, due to Covid 19, than originally planned, it remains a good time to […]
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