Preface Foreword: The Tavistock enigma Part I The Tavistock legacy CHAPTER ONE Challenge, change and sabotage CHAPTER TWO What lies beneath CHAPTER THREE Psychoanalysis, social science, and the Tavistock tradition CHAPTER FOUR Research at the Tavistock CHAPTER FIVE “Mummy’s gone away and left me behind” James Robertson at the Tavistock Clinic CHAPTER SIX The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, 1920–2020 CHAPTER SEVEN John Bowlby at the Tavistock Clinic CHAPTER EIGHT Balint Groups CHAPTER NINE Alexis Brook in primary care CHAPTER TEN Extending the reach of the “talking cure” Part II Pregnancy and under 5s CHAPTER ELEVEN The psychopathology of publications concerning reactions to stillbirths and neonatal deaths CHAPTER TWELVE Parent–infant psychotherapy at a baby clinic CHAPTER THIRTEEN Service for under-fives in the child and family department at the Tavistock: short-term applications of psychoanalytic practice and infant observation Part III Children and Adolescents CHAPTER FOURTEEN Child Guidance Training Centre 1929–1984 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Gloucester House: a story of endurance, inspiration, and innovation CHAPTER SIXTEEN A foothold in paediatrics CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Early psychoanalytic approaches to autism at the Tavistock CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Eating Disorders Workshop—Tavistock Adolescent Department CHAPTER NINETEEN The creation of a service for children and adolescents facing gender identity issues CHAPTER TWENTY The establishment of the Young People’s Counselling Service CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Facing it out: the Adolescent Department Part IV Couples and families CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A brief history of Tavistock Relationships CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Tavistock Relationships and the growth of couple psychoanalysis 1988–2019: a personal memoir CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Family therapy across the decades; evolution and discontinuous change Part V Working with adults CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Brief psychotherapy: practice and research CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS) CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Working at the Tavistock Clinic Adult Department 1972–1997 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT The Adult Department CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE The Adult Department: a group at work CHAPTER THIRTY The Fitzjohn’s Unit Part VI Psychology, social work, and nursing CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The psychology discipline CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Holding tensions: social work and the Tavistock CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Nursing at the Tavistock Part VII Consultation, court, and organisations CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Child protection and the courts CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Autonomic countertransference: the psychopathic mind and the institution CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX The Tavistock legacy in America: making sense of society CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Psychoanalytic thinking in organisational settings and the therapeutic community tradition CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Group relations and religion CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE The new landscape of leadership: living in radical uncertainty Part VIII Performance, publications, and policy CHAPTER FORTY “Give them time” Pigeon holes and pasta—the making of a Tavistock TV programme CHAPTER FORTY-ONE The Tavistock Gazette, pantomimes, and books CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Tavistock pantomimes CHAPTER FORTY-THREE The Tavistock Clinic Series CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR Tavistock policy seminars: a contained and disruptive space Afterword Soldiering on References Index

'A book worth reading about a great history [...] This book has now made the history and significance of the Tavi, including the mythical side (e.g. “Operation Phoenix”, the new life from the ashes of the Second World War) much clearer to me.'