The Tavistock Tradition, Psychoanalysis and Social Science

Michael Rustin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of East London,  a  Visiting Professor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, and an Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has  been a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex. He has written widely on the interrelations between psychoanalyis and society.  His recent publications  include  Researching the Unconscious:  Principles of Psychoanalytic Method (2019), New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy (edited with  Margaret Rustin 2019),  Reading Klein (with Margaret Rustin (2016), and Social Defences against Anxiety (edited with  David Armstrong, 2015).. With David   Armstrong he has written two chapters on the Tavistock’s  tradition, to be published in 2020 Vision: the Tavistock Century (editors Margot Waddell and Sebastian Kraemer, forthcoming.

David Armstrong is a social psychologist and an Associate Consultant at Tavistock Consulting. Between 1959 and 1968 he was a Junior Project Officer at the Tavistock Institute, working on a number of socio technical projects under the direction of Eric Trist. Subsequently he was a Research Fellow at Chelsea College, University of London and then a Senior Consultant at The Grubb Institute before returning to the Tavistock in 1994 when the Clinic set up a dedicated Consultancy Service. He has written and published widely on the Tavistock's approach to working with groups and organisations, drawing both from psychoanalysis and systemic frameworks.

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