{"title":"The Fitzjohn’s Unit","authors":"David L. Bell, Birgit Kleeberg","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2025888","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a description of the development and work of The Fitzjohn’s Unit a specialist service, housed within the Adult Department of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients suffering from the more complex/serious disorders many of them having been unwell for many decades. The paper describes the patients treated, the model of care and also aims to show how this work can illuminate more general consideration such as the nature of the psychoanalytic attitude and the relation of psychiatry to psychoanalysis","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2025888","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article provides a description of the development and work of The Fitzjohn’s Unit a specialist service, housed within the Adult Department of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients suffering from the more complex/serious disorders many of them having been unwell for many decades. The paper describes the patients treated, the model of care and also aims to show how this work can illuminate more general consideration such as the nature of the psychoanalytic attitude and the relation of psychiatry to psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy publishes original contributions on the application, development and evaluation of psychoanalytic ideas and therapeutic interventions in the public health sector and other related applied settings. The Journal aims to promote theoretical and applied developments that are underpinned by a psychoanalytic understanding of the mind. Its aims are consonant with those of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS (APP in the NHS) in promoting applied psychoanalytic work and thinking in the health care system, across the whole age range.