M.A. Modern History
PhD Systems and Psychodynamic Approaches to Organisations

After an early career as a journalist and playwright, Tim worked as a social scientist at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation in the 1970s, on projects to do with children in hospital (with Isabel Menzies) and the dynamics of care around people with disabilities and the elderly (with Eric Miller). After joining the Centre of Applied Social Research, he was deputy chair of the Social Systems Group (Miller was chair).

He has continued to work with the Tavistock Institute as a group relations consultant and was the Director of the Leicester Conference in 1999 and 2001. He is a Professional Partner of the Institute.

He is also a visiting tutor at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust and Associate of Tavistock Consulting.

In the 1990s he was Head of Management Development at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

He has been a Member of OPUS (an Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) since 1980 and contributes regularly to the journal, Organisational & Social Dynamics. (See Publications.)

Anna Dartington – 1945-2007

Senior clinical lecturer in the Adolescent Department, the Tavistock Clinic.

Anna's publications include

Dartington A. Where Angels Fear to Tread: Idealism, despondency and opportunities for thought in hospital nursing, in The Unconscious at Work, ed. Obholzer A and Zagier Roberts V., pp 101-109. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Reprinted in a fuller version in Looking into Later Life, a psychoanalytic approach to depression and dementia in old age, ed. Rachael Davenhill, pp160-183. London: Karnac, 2007.

Dartington A. The Significance of the Outsider in families and other social groups, Chapter 7 in Crisis at Adolescence: Object Relations Therapy with the family, ed.Sally Box et al. Aronson, New York and London, 1994.

Anderson R. and Dartington A. eds. Facing It Out, clinical perspectives on adolescent disturbance. Tavistock Clinic Series. London: Duckworth, later Karnac, 1998

Dartington A (with Pratt, R.) My Unfaithful Brain – a journey into Alzheimer’s Disease. In Looking into Later Life, a psychoanalytic approach to depression and dementia in old age, ed. Rachael Davenhill, pp283-297. London: Karnac, 2007.

Dartington, A. W.R Bion and T.S Eliot. In: Chris Mawson (ed) Bion Today, pp.247-254 London and New York: Routledge. 2010.

Tim Dartington