Reflecting on Reality (Tavistock Clinic Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855752115 ISBN 13: 9781855752115

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Primary care and psychotherapy are in some ways worlds apart. Yet both deal with the same human fundamentals: birth, and death, hope and disappointment, identity and uncertainty. This innovative book looks at how psychotherapists can make use of their skills in primary care. It examines how therapists, family physicians and other primary care professionals can all learn from each other through clinical collaboration. Each chapter describes a different practical approach to joint working in a range of primary care settings, across the life cycle. Specific topics include services for children and adolescents, working with immigrants, and live supervision. All the authors are connected with the Tavistock Clinic, and are psychotherapists or family physicians. The book challenges psychotherapists and those who work in primary care to develop closer working relationships, so that they can deliver more effective and more equitable services.

About this title

About the Author:

Dilys Daws is an Honorary Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and Visiting Consultant to the Baby Clinic of the James Wigg Practice, Kentish Town Health Centre. She is an Advisor to the Association for Infant Mental Health. Her publications include Through the Night: Helping Parents and Sleepless Children (1993).

Sue Blake is a GP Principal, Trainer and Appraiser; she is also Senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care in the Adult Department at the Tavistock Clinic, having completed training in both Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Her previous research interest was in psychological responses to a diagnosis of breast cancer and she has published several papers on this topic.

John Launer is a GP and family therapist. He is Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care at the Tavistock Clinic, and Associate Director of Post-Graduate GP Education at the London GP Deanery. He is the author of Narrative Based Primary Care: A Practical Guide (2002, Radcliffe Medical Press) and co-editor with Jonathan Burton of Supervision and Support in Primary Care (2003, Radcliffe Medical Press)

Review:

'The book reflects a distinctiveness and also an immense diversity of attitude and approach arising out of the thinking and experience gathered in each department of the Clinic over the years. The respective authors each psychotherapeutically trained and each engaged, in different ways, with primary care, focus on a range of community settings in which the complex needs of patients and practitioners challenge known or standardised ways of going about things.'- Margot Waddell, from the Preface

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1855752115
• ISBN 13: 9781855752115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• Editor: Blake Sue, Daws Dilys, John Launer