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Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of therapeutic approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has also adopted systemic family therapy as a theoretical model and a clinical approach to family problems. The Clinic is now the largest training institution in Britain for mental health, providing postgraduate and qualifying courses in social work, psychology, psychiatry, an bd child, adolcescent, and adult psychotherapy, as well as in nursingand primary care. It trains about 1,400 students each year in over 45 cwncs. The Clinic’s philosophy aims at promoting therapeutic methods in mental health. Its work is founded on the clinical expertise that is also the basis of its consultancy and research activities. The aim of this Series is to make available to the reading public the clinical, theoretical, and research work that is most influential at the Tavistodc Clinic. The Series seu out new approaches in the understanding and treatment of psyche logical disturbance in children, adokscents, and adults, both as individuals and in families.