Tavistock Hospital

In this paper I hope to offer an understanding of the different kinds of complex trauma presentations we see in the Tavistock Trauma Service and will use amalgated clinical examples to illustrate these. We work in a trauma-informed manner using a phase-based approach of stabilisation and safety, trauma processing, and reintegration and reconnection. All of this is held within a psychoanalytic frame.

Abstract After exploring the meaning of panentheism, this article looks at divine action as an example of current debate in science and religion where panentheism makes important contributions. But the essay thens also draws attention to the areas of experience and ethics implied by Rowan Williams's words, in the belief that panentheism is able to aid the connection of science to the subjective realities of religious experience and moral decision making. Panentheism represents theology that is engaging and creative, and a metaphysic with rich and sensitive moral resources. And given the moral questions which now press so urgently on science and the contemporary world, that contribution of panentheism could be of paramount importance.

This paper discusses a training opportunity based on an adaptation of the Infant Observation method. This is a much shorter module, of ten weekly visits.We describe three training components: (a) an opportunity to learn directly about child development and to become familiar with children's verbal and nonverbal communications; (b) a direct experience of the emotional impact and strength of primitive feelings, both in the children and in the trainees themselves, and (c) learning to be a ‘non-participant’ observer. We believe that the ability to observe without intervention is extremely important in the development of clinical skids. We suggest that this is the cornerstone of the method and that it may have a wider application to the training of those in the caring professions, including psychiatrists, nurses and social workers.

THOSE of your readers who have been interested by Sir Oliver Lodge”s article printed in NATURE, April 23, on the “Interaction Between the Mental and Material Aspects of Things,” may be glad to be referred to Thomas Solly's essay on the Will, published in 1856.