Essays on Tavistock

There are many theories as to how a person may become who he or she is. Some people believe that they are directly shaped by the events that happen in a person’s past, while other thinkers state that people go through different dialectical stages that led up to one’s current state. In this sense, there are many elements that one must be aware of in order to adequately analyze one’s life development. Three of the most important development theorists are B. F. Skinner, John Watson and Erik Erikson; these three men founded Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism and ...

The relationship between the personal and the social is one of the greatest problems that humans face when they are in society. Every culture has attempted to tie people together, something that has always been controversial. One of the most difficult phenomena that scientists and philosophers have had to explain is the propagation of emotion between people. In this sense, the Tavistock model attempts to explicate the induction of emotional states in others through projective identification. It is important to contemplate such a process because it distorts reality not just for one person, but for others as well. For ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) The Tavistock Model was originally developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London around the onset of the First World War It started as a classroom experiment for students studying infants, but soon became an accepted practice throughout the social science field as a means of observing infants, children, and adults. The model itself has deep roots in Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory and was developed as a collaboration between child psychoanalyst Esther Bick and Dr. John Bowlby. Because the concentration started as a means of observing the stages of emotional and mental development in children, ...