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

289 Pages·2012·1.12 MB·English

by  Alessandra Lemma

Contemporary Developments in
Adult and Young Adult Therapy
Tavistock Clinic Series
Margot Waddell (Series Editor)
Published and distributed by Karnac Books
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Contemporary Developments in
Adult and Young Adult Therapy
THE WORK OF
THE TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN CLINICS
VOLUME 1
Edited by
Alessandra Lemma
Foreword by
Matthew Patrick
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CONTENTS
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xvii
FOREWORD xxiii
I
As we are now
Introduction
Alessandra Lemma 3
1 Talk talk:
theories and practices for turbulent times
Andrew Cooper 19
2 A plurality of just answers
Bernadette Wren & Ellie Kavner 42
vii
viii CONTENTS
II
Psychoanalytic interventions with
young adults and adults
Introduction
Alessandra Lemma 65
3 Time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy
for adolescents and young adults
Stephen Briggs & Louise Lyon 69
4 The Young People’s Consultation Services:
a model of engagement
Linda Young & Frank Lowe 89
5 Complexity in primary care
Brian Rock & Anca Carrington 111
6 Treatment continuity in discontinuous worlds
Carine Minne 134
7 Picking up a log from both ends:
couple work in the Tavistock tradition
Joanna Rosenthall 153
III
Innovations in
adult mental health care
Introduction
Alessandra Lemma 175
8 Treating the untreatable:
the evolution of a psychoanalytically informed service
for antisocial personality disorder
Jessica Yakeley 179
CONTENTS ix
9 Where Internet was, there ego shall be:
community and well-being in the digital world
Richard Graham 205
10 Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT):
developing a new intervention for depression
Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, & Peter Fonagy 224
INDEX 249