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Teens in AI – innovation for the future
Our Trust celebrates its centenary this year, but even as we reflect on our history, we know that the future will be led by innovation.
An honest reflection on the UK’s first virtual Group Relations Conference
As they emerge from new Group Relations Conference (GRC) territory, GRC directors Mel Mahadevan and Sarah Wynick give a personal account and...
Specialist mental health teaching now available to all through launch of Digital Academy
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and world’s learning company, Pearson, are delighted to announce a partnership to develop and...
Trust supports range of projects thanks to NHS Charities Together
We’re delighted to announce several Trust projects will receive funding thanks to a generous grant from NHS Charities Together.A message from our Dean to our applicants and new students
Thank you for your interest in studying with us in the 2020-21 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you to study with us in the year of our...A message from our Dean to our current students
I am writing to you with an important update regarding the academic year 2020-21. Despite the uncertain times that we have all faced over the past...
Book Launch: Handbook of Black Community Mental Health
This month saw the launch of the first international handbook on Black community mental health.
Pioneering family therapist John Byng-Hall dies
We are sad to announce the death of John Byng-Hall on Friday 17 July 2020 after his health had been failing for some time. He is survived by his...
Laverne Antrobus on ITV Tonight & BBC Breakfast
Laverne Antrobus, Child & Educational Psychologist, appeared on both ITV Tonight’s special broadcast, Generation Covid: How coronavirus lockdown...
Free online summer school for budding tech entrepeneurs
The Tavistock and Portman has been offered ten free places for young people across north London to take part in an online digital programme and...
Our experts in the media
Our trust experts Laverne Antrobus and Stephen Blumenthal have made recent appearances in the media to discuss COVID-19.
#ThankYouTogether Podcasts
To celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the NHS on 5th July 2020, leaders from across North Central London have come together to share key moments...
Trust defence of GIDS
GIDS (Gender Identity Development Service) is a safe and caring service which supports a wide range of children and young people grappling with...
Media Mention: Laverne Antrobus on BBC
Laverne Antrobus, Child & Educational Psychologist, has made three appearances on the BBC recently.
Infant Mental Health Awareness Week blog: Observation and Attention
To mark Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, Jenifer Wakelyn, Watch me play! Programme Lead, speaks on the importance of staying curious and...
Media mentions: Our experts on COVID-19
Our Trust experts have been active in the news media in recent weeks, discussing coronavirus and the mental health impact of the pandemic.
Black Lives Matter - A Trust Statement
A Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust statement on the Black Lives Matter movement from Paul Jenkins, our CEO, and Paul Burstow, our Chair.
Carrying on Caring: Paul Burstow on the impact of Covid-19 on social care professionals
Our Chair, Paul Burstow, shares his thoughts on how we make sense of the impact of the changes forced on upon us by Covid-19 and what we can do to...
Doing remote systemic psychotherapy during a pandemic – learning from a speedy Quality Improvement Project
Sarah Helps reflects on the initial findings of a quality improvement project on doing remote systemic psychotherapy. Findings indicate that the...
Free Course: Social Care During COVID-19
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust is delighted to offer a free COVID-19 and social care course via learning platform FutureLearn.
Media Mention: Stephen Blumenthal in The Psychologist
Dr Stephen Blumenthal, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, with support from writer Steve Beale, has written a new piece for The...
New Videos on Coping and Connecting well for parents
In partnership with NCL Partners, we are excited to release two video resources on parenting through the COVID crisis. The videos address some of...
The importance of reflective, curious and relational supervision – wave three of the Practice Supervisor Development Programme
We are delighted to announce that the Practice Supervisor Development Programme (PSDP) has been funded for a third year.
COVID-19: vulnerability and the fear of vulnerability – a Tavistock Policy Seminar
At our May Tavistock Policy Seminar Tim Dartington, Angela Foster and John Simmonds explored the psychological and social reality of the...
Visit us at our first Virtual Open Day: Saturday 20 June 2020
In a world that is constantly changing, so are we, and as you can’t come to us, we will come to you! Our scheduled summer open day will now be 100%...
Gender Identity Development Service referrals in 2019-20 same as 2018-19
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the NHS national service for under-18s experiencing difficulties with their gender identity, has...
Launch of Education in Mind, a wellbeing support resource for education staff in Camden during COVID-19
Education in Mind is a website of podcasts and resources that support the wellbeing and mental health of all staff working within, or supporting...
Leading and Containing in Higher Education during Covid-19
Charlotte Williams, a qualified organisational consultant, counsellor, trainer and clinical supervisor at Tavistock Consulting has written an...
Why averting a mental health catastrophe is key to coming out of an induced economic coma
By Paul Burstow We humans are a resilient and hopeful species. We have survived pestilence, floods and other natural and manmade calamities. Is it...
NHS Trusts team-up to offer free COVID-19 online course
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and Maudsley Learning have combined to create a special free online course available on leading social learning...
Today we celebrate our nurses on International Nurses Day 2020
Today is International Nurses Day (IND). On the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth, our Director of Nursing Chris Caldwell reflects...
The early response to Covid 19 – a psychoanalytic and trauma perspective
Dr Joanne Stubley, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist & Psychoanalyst, and lead for the Tavistock Trauma service writes.
Video conferencing and security
We are aware of publicity surrounding usage of various video conferencing platforms and security. As a Trust, we are confident we can use video...
Coronavirus and social claustrophobia: the new psychological frontier
Dr Stephen Blumenthal, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, discusses coronavirus and psychological consequences of lockdown in a...
Doing Remote Systemic Psychotherapy during COVID-19: some practice ideas
As for many other health and social care professionals, the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way that systemic psychotherapists work. With...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for our students
This advice applies to students registered on our postgraduate and Trust Certificate programmes. Those due to attend an upcoming CPD event will be...
Coronavirus, moral panic, psychic and physical threat, danger and social immunity
Graham Music explores the implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on our mental health and on how we relate to others in light of the...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) update
The NHS in London and Public Health England (PHE) are extremely well prepared for outbreaks of new infectious diseases. The NHS has put in place...
Headstrong: the second sex at the Tavistock and Portman
Clinical psychologist Louise Lyon reflects on the contribution of two early Tavistock Clinic women in honour of International women’s day on Sunday.
GIDS update – judicial review to proceed
A judge has this week decided that the proposed judicial review of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) approach may proceed to a...
Student portal upgrade this weekend
Our student portal (MyTAP) will not be available from 6pm today (Friday 21 February) until 9.30 am on Monday 24 February while the system is...
Additional resources to support practice supervisors available now
Our partners at Research in Practice have released a new suite of materials to support practice supervisors, commissioned as part of the Practice...
The Adult Gender Identity Clinic is moving
Later this year the Adult Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) will move to a new London location, near Finchley Road underground station.
Bid for better is back 2020
Bid for better funds projects that support mental wellbeing and improve patient experience.
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The NHS in London and Public Health England (PHE) are extremely well prepared for outbreaks of new infectious diseases. The NHS has put in place...
GIDS update – February 2020
The Trust is proud of its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which for 30 years has been providing support to children and young people...
Tavistock and Portman gains membership of the Independent Higher Education organisation
We are delighted to announce that we are now a member of the Independent Higher Education organisation.
Book Launch – A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to host the paperback launch of 'A Good Enough Mother' by Bev Thomas.
Ready now – Developing diverse leadership
Paul Jenkins, our Chief Executive, blogs about his reflections on diversity after a conversation with a colleague.
2019 in review
As 2019 comes to an end, we wanted to write to our service users, stakeholders and partner organisations, and highlight what has been achieved at...Upcoming Events
Discovering Leadership: The Secret Life of Authority and Role
How can we better understand the informal structures and systems that form, inform, and distort our organizations and our places within them? How...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Working with trauma
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for our staff students and alumni. Event synopsis to follow Speakers Jo Stubley Chair Julian Stern Time11:30am -...
Trust Scientific Meeting: A history of psychoanalytic thinking in the Trust
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for our staff, students and alumni. Event synopsis to follow Speakers John Steiner Chair David Bell Time11:30am -...
Trust Scientific Meeting: The THRIVE Framework: an approach to whole system transformation
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for staff, students and alumni. Event synopsis to follow Speakers Rachel James Chair TBC Time 11:30am - 12:50pm...
Attachment, Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology
We are currently making plans as to which mode of delivery this course will be run and further information will be advertised here in due course...
Attachment, Psychopathology and Treatment in Adulthood
We are currently making plans as to which mode of delivery this course will be run and further information will be advertised here in due course...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Working with couples
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for staff, students and alumni. Event synopsis to follow Speakers Jo Rosenthall Chair TBC Time11:30am - 12:50pm...
Past Events
Trust Scientific Meeting: The impact of refugees on the Tavistock and the work with refugee communities today
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for our staff, students and alumni. Rumbling in the background of the past 100 years of the Tavistock’s existence...
Back to the Future: Authority, vulnerability, continuity and change: A Group Relations Conference celebrating 100 years of Tavistock thinking
NB. This conference has been postponed. However, we are currently we're trying to collect views on how and when to reschedule it via this survey:...
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a Group Relations Conference
This is an applied 3 day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Refugee Week event: Imagine
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Founded in 1998 and held every year around...
Trust Scientific Meeting: On complacency
Julian Lousada will illustrate how complacency is an important but often unrecognized factor which can enter into our work with patients and also...
On whose authority? - exploring leadership in contemporary organisation, Geneva group relations conference 2020
A Group Relations Conference in Geneva
COVID-19: Vulnerability and the Fear of Vulnerability
Join us for a special Tavistock Policy Seminar about the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on vulnerable children, adults and older people. We are...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Group Relations at the Tavistock: Where from and where to?
Time: 11:30am to 12:50pm Date: 11 May 2020 Speaker: William Halton and Members of the GRC Steering Committee Chair: Tim LeLean, GRC Steering...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Under Fire in the Consulting Room
A slow match is a very slow-burning fuse presenting only a small glowing tip whereas a quick match is one - which once ignited - burns at top...
Tavistock Policy Series: The Consultant’s Act of Freedom: Isabel Menzies Lyth 60 years on
With our leading mental health experts, our Centenary Tavistock Policy Seminar series provides an opportunity to explore our latest thinking and...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Watch me play!
Watch me Play! is an intervention to support vulnerable babies and young children. Dr Jenifer Wakelyn will explore the roots of this approach in...
Courage to Connect: Navigating the Complexities of Organisational Life - a Group Relations Conference
We live and work in complex formal and informal organisational contexts. The liveliness, energy, interest and respect that we can bring to each...
Trust Scientific Meeting: 'Oedipus Wrecked’ - Constructing the unconscious phantasy through its emergence in the analyst’s mind”
In most patients, classically recognisable Oedipal themes are present and dominant, emerging symbolically in dreams, phantasies and actions – and...
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: Improving Practice 2019
A Joint Conference Healthcare Conferences UK & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation TrustResearched and produced in partnership with The...
On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Thinking Space: On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Trust Scientific Meeting: "Waiting Times: an exploration and update"
What does it mean to wait now? What does it mean to care now?
Fluidity – a retrospective of paintings by Dimitris Giannakopoulos
We are thrilled to be displaying a series of paintings from artist Dimitris Giannakopoulos in November at the Tavistock Centre.
Annual General Meeting 2019
We invite you to attend our 2019 Annual General Meeting
Trust Scientific Meeting “Strange meeting: the relevance of Tavistock history and methods to the Brexit crisis"
The Tavistock and Portman has a long tradition of democratically based working methods and management practices, which are in danger of being lost...
Discovering Leadership: The State we’re in and the State within - a group relations conference
Organizational life is more complex and difficult than ever. Globalisation, technology, and the rapid pace of environmental change sets us in a...
Identity, culture, and class in group and organisational life: a group relations conference
Join us in creating a three-day experiential learning institution, designed to explore ways in which groups, inter-groups and organisations...
Time-limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: a developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people by Stephen Briggs
There are drinks and light refreshments, and the opportunity to meet other guests. The contribution the book makes to current practice, and debates...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Mind your language: the vocabulary of higher education today
Universities have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, especially since 2010. In this lecture, Stefan Collini discusses some of these...
Launch of 'New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy: Findings from Qualitative Research'
The editors of the Tavistock Clinic/Routledge Book Series (Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty and Kate Stratton) are pleased to invite you to the launch...
The Projections Society presents: Ida
In 1962, Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover...
BAME youth and their identity in hostile environments
Can psychoanalysis help adolescents from a BAME background negotiate positive identities and personality development in a hostile environment? A...
Beyond the Us and Them Conference
The Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees (CTAR) of the University of Essex, UNHCR, the Tavistock Centre and the Refugee Council invite you to...
Family Origins: Childhood trauma in Harry Potter and the Clinic
The second in a new annual lecture series on “Identities in Transition”, in memory of Stephen Thomson.
Gender and Power: a Shakespearean Dialogue
Join us for an evening of dialogue about the links between psychotherapeutic approaches and Shakespeare's plays.
Book Launch: Researching the Unconscious by Michael Rustin
The Editors (Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty and Kate Stratton) of the Tavistock Clinic/Routledge Book Series are pleased to invite you to the Launch...
The 2019 Tavistock Doctoral Conference: ‘Making waves – influencing the professional field through practitioner research’
Join us for presentations, workshops, debate, networking, refreshments, and inspiration.
Trust Research Week
Research Week highlights the best in mental health research methodology.
Trust Scientific Meeting: Rising climate instability
Currently we see rapidly rising instability in two distinct climates: the physical and the human. It will be argued in this presentation that these...
Health and Social Care Workforce Development: Preventing Stress and Enhancing Workforce Resilience Conference
The 2019 Mental Health Workforce Development Conference.
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a group relations conference
This is an applied four-day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Tavistock Policy Seminar: Reflective Social Work Practice
Tavistock Policy Seminars presents:"Reflective Social Work Practice - How it works, how it helps, does it?
Youth Violence and Knife Crime in London Today: Going beyond the superficial approaches
A Thinking Space Special Event
Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
The internationally respected clinician and trainer Dr Graham Music, tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect,...
Not Knowing but Learning about Racism
A Thinking Space Special Event
We welcome press enquiries on a broad range of subjects, not just those directly relating to mental health.