Francesca Hume worked for over 25 years at the Tavistock, where, for 14 years, she ran the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (M1). She first trained as a clinical psychologist and is now a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She supervises and teaches in the United Kingdom and abroad.

¿Helen Barker is a psychoanalyst, now in full time private practice, with a background in psychiatry. She worked in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic as a clinician and supervisor for 18 years.

Part I: Teaching and learning

1. Education at the Tavistock and the development of an adult psychanalytic psychtherapy training
Francesca Hume

2. On the acquisitio of psychoanalytic knowledge and attitude: fostering development and learning from experience

Francesca Hume

Part II: Learning and unlearning

3. Trainee selection and the challenge of experiential learning

Francesca Hume

[...] not knowing
Era Trieman

5. Up or down; life or death
Anne McKay

6. The elephant tied up with string
Simon Shaw

7. There are two in the room
Malika Verma

8. One groove's difference: on unlearning psychiatry
Alan Baban

9. Becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist: learning and unlearning, identity and citizenship
Rachel Hodgins

10. Learning through supervision
Francesca Hume

Part III: Learning about the transference and countertransference

11. Transference and countertransference

Francesca Hume

12. Not just any old bowl
Michelle Washington

13. Should I stay or should I go?
Thomas Hillen

14. The shape of things to come
Viv Walkerdine

15. From incorporation to introjection and mourning: parallel processes in both patient and trainee
Diane Turner

16. On being guided by the countertransference
Carolyn Walker

Part IV: Learning through clinical challenges

17. A death during the pandemic
Louise Barnard

18. When the worst thing happened
Susan Baldock

19. The impact of the therapist's pregnancy in a training case
Avgoustina Almyroudi

20. "I would prefer not to": a man in terror of his own mind
Devayani Shevade

21. The Ghost Ship: a reflection on working in the Tavistock during the Covid-19 pandemic
Alan Baban

22. Lost in the dark: my first training patient and working on the telephone
Denise Hurst Hastings

Part V: Diversity

23. Insiders and outsiders: some thoughts on diversity and psychanalysis

Francesca Hume

24. Thinking about sexual diversity in psychoanalytic training
Poul Rohleder

25. Hiding in plain sight: a personal experience of being black on the M1 course
Diane Turner

26. On my diversity and the M1 training.
Reziya Harrison

Part VI: Some final reflections

23. A changing NHS and threats to the integrity of the M1 training: can we keep a culture of enquiry?
Francesca Hume

24. Final reflections.
Francesca Hume