Papers celebrating forty years of the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies.The Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies began life as teh Family Discussion Bureau in 1948, and has since developed into a centre of advanced study and practice committed to alleviating the stresses of family life. The papers in this volume, originally presented at an anniversary conference in 1998, not only touch upon the history of an organisation but also raise issues highly relevant to the mental health of individuals, families and the community in the closing years of the 20th Century.This work includes contributions from: Timothy Renton MP, Christopher Clulow, David Clark, Robin Skynner, Barbara Dearnley, Douglas Woodhouse
About the Author
Christopher Clulow is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Founding Member and Vice Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Honorary Research Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington. He is a Patron of Hertfordshire Central Relate and a Trustee for several charitable bodies working in the field of family support. He is the author or editor of nine other books and over a hundred published papers that consider marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He was Therapies Editor of the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy between 1996 – 2008, and Chair of the International Commission for Family and Interpersonal Relationships between 1987–1994. He teaches in this country and overseas, and lives with his family in St Albans where he has a private couple psychotherapy practice.
Papers celebrating forty years of the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies.The Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies began life as teh Family Discussion Bureau in 1948, and has since developed into a centre of advanced study and practice committed to alleviating the stresses of family life. The papers in this volume, originally presented at an anniversary conference in 1998, not only touch upon the history of an organisation but also raise issues highly relevant to the mental health of individuals, families and the community in the closing years of the 20th Century.This work includes contributions from: Timothy Renton MP, Christopher Clulow, David Clark, Robin Skynner, Barbara Dearnley, Douglas Woodhouse
About the Author
Christopher Clulow is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Founding Member and Vice Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, Honorary Research Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington. He is a Patron of Hertfordshire Central Relate and a Trustee for several charitable bodies working in the field of family support. He is the author or editor of nine other books and over a hundred published papers that consider marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. He was Therapies Editor of the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy between 1996 – 2008, and Chair of the International Commission for Family and Interpersonal Relationships between 1987–1994. He teaches in this country and overseas, and lives with his family in St Albans where he has a private couple psychotherapy practice.