ABSTRACT

This book is written to accompany a BBC 2 TV series about the Tavistock Clinic, an NHS mental health institute which treats patients and trains professionals. The programmes of the series are about therapy — talking — as a way of dealing with difficulties that life can entail.

chapter 1|12 pages

Beginning of the Mind

chapter 2|15 pages

Play

chapter 3|10 pages

Are Children Innocent?

chapter 4|11 pages

How Does Growing Up Happen?

chapter 5|16 pages

What Causes the Mind?

chapter 6|16 pages

Love

chapter 7|10 pages

Dreaming

chapter 8|10 pages

What Is a Family?

chapter 9|13 pages

Groups

chapter 10|11 pages

Work

chapter 11|7 pages

Food for the Mind

chapter 13|14 pages

Mental Distress and Mental Illness

chapter 14|12 pages

Therapy

chapter 15|5 pages

Registering Time

chapter 16|9 pages

Age

chapter 17|12 pages

The Future