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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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 […]
Read More A short history of group relations at the Tavistock
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 MoreThe Tavistock and Portman Centenary: Reflections on the Role of Medical Consultants
By 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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