Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy : The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics

This volume succeeds in epitomizing aspects of the life and work of the two Clinics that comprise the Tavistock and Portrman National health service foundation trust. It includes both short- and long-term interventions, from forensic psychiatry to marital therapy and primary-care cooperation.

‘This challenging and ambitious book captures the variety and richness of contemporary clinical developments in the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in relation to work with young adults. It sets these developments in lytic and systemic principles that are the centra up over their long and distinguished history. Th that face the Clinics from the evidence-based for resources with forms of practice that are outlines the adaptive and innovative ways to this competitive situation, for example by the context of the collective I underpinning of the Clinics’e book sets the scene for the practice approach and from validated by this approach. in which the Clinics have e development of an internet- based service for young adults, the application of mentalisation-based antisocial patients, and the use of dynamic interpersonal therapy as a br This book will be an inspiring guide and rallying call for practitioners in health field, who face the same inexorable competition for resources in therapy in the NHS and public services.’