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• Category: Miscellaneous Material
  • Nurses Under Stress – Isabel Menzies Lyth for the Nursing Times
  • People Need People | A therapeutic community in a U.S Navy psychiatric ward.
  • Obituaries: Dr. Maxwell Jones
  • Wilfred Bion: An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences
• Category: Cotswold Bruderhof Scrapbook
  • The Stranger in Our Midst
  • People come for utopia, but is that what they find?
  • Beam in the Weaving Hall of the Cotswold Community
  • Life inside the Cotswold Bruderhof
  • The new buildings created by the Bruderhof, c.1940
  • Farm buildings at Ashton Farm, 1936
  • The Cotswold Bruderhof
• Category: John's Blog
  • Somerford Keynes Parish Council’s Report.
  • Windsor Conference 11th Nov ’19
  • The story of the Cotswold Bruderhof (14 October 2018)
  • The early days of the Cotswold Community (5th October 2018)
  • The Mulberry Bush’s AGM and 70th Anniversary
  • John’s Second Post
  • JW’s First Blog
• Category: Comments and Discussion
  • On Archive Entry ‘Principles of the Cotswold Community’
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  • On the Cotswold Approved School…
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  • On Archive Entry ‘Routines, Limits and Anchor Points’
  • On ‘The Beginnings of the Cotswold Community’
  • On ‘The Beginnings of the Cotswold Community’
  • On Archive Entry ‘Greenacres’
  • On My Paper ‘Circles – Viscious and Virtuous,’ and Archive Entry ‘The Management of Violence’
• Category: ISP Scrapbook
  • ISP Foster Carers: Ten Year Achievements
  • Reflecting, Connecting and Belonging
  • The Story of Being ‘Looked After’
  • ISP’s senior management team 2011
  • ISP’s Senior Management Team, 1999
  • ISP’s Board and Senior Management Team, 2001
• Category: Cotswold Approved School Scrapbook
  • Agricultural Apprenticeship at The Cotswold Approved School
  • Cotswold Approved School c.1960
  • Queen Mary’s Visit to the Cotswold Approved School
• Category: Child Care General Archive
  • 50 Years of Early Years Provision 1971-2021
  • Organic Growth and the Collective Enterprise
  • Punishments and Rewards
  • The Use and Misuse of Planned Environmental Therapy
  • Kitezh and the Therapeutic Community Concept
  • The Development of Self in Children in Institutions
  • The Importance of Child Care History
  • Building and maintaining the therapeutic structure, and some thoughts on the consultant’s role.
  • Thinking about Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Stress and Burnout
  • The Meaning and Management of Endings
  • The Anti-group: Destructive Forces in the Group and their Therapeutic Potential
  • Gloucestershire Counselling Service – Beginnings
  • The Contribution of Six Recently Deceased Pioneer Child Care Researchers in the UK
  • Spaces for Growth – Where Milieu Therapy and Psychotherapy Meet
  • Patrick Tomlinson’s Blog – Professional and Personal Development
  • Patrick Tomlinson Blog – Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatised Children
  • The Quintessence of a Therapeutic Environment
  • Selfless Genes, Altruism and Trauma: Research and Clinical Implications
  • The Study and Reduction of Group Tensions in the Family
  • Touch, Physical Restraint and Therapeutic Containment in Residential Child Care
  • Assessing the Needs of Traumatised Children to Improve Outcomes
  • Clinical observations of the differences between children on the autism spectrum and those with attachment problems – the Coventry Grid
  • A Note on the Dynamics of a Family Business
  • Some Aspects of Damage and Restitution, 1953
  • Communicating with Traumatised Children
  • Delinquency as a Sign of Hope
  • Getting Better Makes It Worse
  • The Female Entrepreneur and The Organisation – A Tentative Hypothesis
  • The English Riots as a Communication – Winnicott, the antisocial tendency and public disorder
  • Youthful Misbehaviour – To Condemn or to Understand?
  • The Value Added Task
  • The Mulberry Bush as a Therapeutic Community
  • Developing skills in therapeutic communication in daily living – Linnet McMahon
  • The Study and Reduction of Group Tensions in the Family – John Bowlby
  • The Healthy Organization by Eric Miller
  • Play as therapy in child care, 1967
  • The possibility of regression in a structured environment, 1963
  • Residential treatment of frozen children
  • The provision of primary experience in a therapeutic school, 1966
  • Only Connect
  • Joined-up Psychotherapy
  • How does a group learn to work together?
  • The Trouble with Teenagers – A guide to caring for disturbed adolescents
  • The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School
  • Working with Anxiety in a Primary Residential Special School
  • Using Regression in Foster Care
  • Greenacres
  • The Accident that could just be a Decipherable Hint
  • Consultancy: Understanding Resistance
  • The Community Meeting
  • Residential Treatment: A Total Therapy
  • The Loneliness of the Leader
  • Helplessness in the Helpers
  • Prologue for the Dartington Social Research Unit Study of Approved School Regimes
  • Groups Stay Poles Apart
  • Task and Anti-Task in Adolescent Institutions
  • Routines, Limits and Anchor Points
  • “United we stand…..?” Stress in Residential Work with Disturbed Children
• Category: Papers written about the Cotswold Community
  • The Cotswold Community, The Story of a Pioneering Therapeutic Community
  • 1986: A once thriving therapeutic community, now deceased
  • Circles – Viscious and Virtuous. Managing Groups in a Therapeutic Community
  • The Importance of Food in Relation to the Treatment of Deprived and Disturbed Children in Care
  • Staying Alive: Is there a Future for Long-term Pyschotherapeutic Child care?
  • Gravel Barons versus a Therapeutic Community
  • The Cotswold Community: A Healing Culture
  • The Residential Treatment of Unintegrated Children: Implications for Therapeutic Communities
  • The Experience of External Consultancy in a Therapeutic Community for Children
  • Boundaries and Parameters
  • What is a Therapeutic Community?
• Category: Cotswold Community Scrapbook
  • Memories of Working with Barbara Dockar-Drysdale | 1972-1990
  • The Forge at the Cotswold Community
  • Closure of the Cotswold Community
  • Key People Behind the Scenes at the Cotswold Community
  • Members of the Management Team and Managing Body
  • Guest Speakers and Visitors to the Cotswold Community
  • The Cotswold Community’s Consultants in 1993
  • Obituary for The Cotswold Community
  • Photo of Knife Grinder
  • Barbara Dockar-Drysdale’s leaving party
  • Russian visitors to the Cotswold Community in 1992
  • Three-year Training Programme in Therapeutic Child Care
  • Cultural Events at the Cotswold Community
  • Buildings at the Cotswold Community
  • Individuals and Institutions – Exploring the Interface
  • Order Out of Chaos
  • What Price an Island of Sanity? The Cotswold Community Farm
  • Milestones – Eric Miller 1924-2002
• Category: George Lyward and Finchden Manor
  • Monsieur George A. Lyward, Educateur Britannique – L’homme et l’œuvre
  • George Lyward – BBC Radio 4 ‘Great Lives’
  • Unlabelled Living
  • Glimpses into the Community
  • What Authority Means
  • Anger of a Therapist
  • A Royal Course
  • The Stricken Healer
  • A Memorial Address
  • Introduction to Finchden
• Category: Archive Material from the work of the Cotswold Community
  • Unspoken, but unmistakeable
  • Where is the Love? A Psychoanalytic History of the Cotswold Community.
  • Management Consultancy at The Cotswold Community
  • Boarding School and Resilience
  • The Defence Mechanism Test
  • Intrapsyhchic Factors in Staff Selection
  • Principles of The Cotswold Community
  • Need Assessment: II Making an assessment, 1970
  • The Experience of Breakdown and the Breakdown that can’t be Experienced – Implications for work with traumatised children
  • A Critical Historical Analysis of an Approved School Transforming into a Therapeutic Community: The Journey of a Healing Culture
  • Therapeutic Communities, volume 32, no 4, Winter 2011
  • Interview with Paul Van Heeswyk
  • Introduction to the Cotswold Community
  • Interview with Barbara Dockar Drysdale
  • A Journey In Therapeutic Care
  • The Cotswold Community as an Experimental Institution – Richard Balbernie
  • Thoughts on Staff Dynamics & Group Work
  • Meeting children’s emotional needs, 1969
  • Emotionally deprived parents, 1969
  • The Management of Violence
  • Internal Mental Space
  • The Role of Food in the Therapeutic Aims of the Cotswold Community
  • The X Factor
  • Staff Consultation in an Evolving Care System
  • The Management of an Evolving Care System
  • The Impossible Task?
  • Physical Contact, Touch and Personal Space in Work with Children
  • Needs of Staff, Needs of Clients
  • The Cotswold Community Farm
  • The Beginnings of the Cotswold Community
  • Sex Education for Emotional Disturbed and Sexually Abused Children
  • Therapeutic Education at the Cotswold Community
• Category: Papers written about therapeutic fostering and therapeutic care
  • What is institutionalising for ‘looked after’ children and young people?
  • Therapeutic Care in Family Settings
  • The Emotional Significance of Food – Course Notes
  • Therapeutic Communities and Therapeutic Fostering: Similarities and Differences – My Journey
  • Why a therapeutic community approach?
  • Group Dynamics. ISP Training Course
  • The Serious Business of Play
  • Therapeutic Child Care in a Family Setting
  • Transitions
  • Therapeutic Child Care
• Category: Child Care General Scrapbook
  • Transcript: Interview with John Diamond, May 2022
  • Shotton Hall – An Obituary and A Celebration
  • Building the Burrow – The Mulberry Bush School
  • John Cross (1931-2017) | An Appreciation – Personal Reflections
  • Trustees of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust
  • ISP Conference – “Therapeutic Learning in Education and Foster Care”
  • Retirement Without the Blues?
  • If Music Be the Food of Love…
  • The Blues is a Healer
  • Mike Soper
  • Obituary for Isabel Menzies Lyth
  • Isabel Menzies Lyth
  • The Charterhouse Group
  • Guidance for Group Home Staff
  • Barbara Dockar-Drysdale’s memories of Donald Winnicott
  • A Day in the Life of a Teacher for Travellers
  • Eulogy for Joseph Stephen Lloyd Dockar-Drysdale
  • A Turmoil of Fragile Hearts – Poems
  • Chris Beedell
  • Three Pieces on Barbara Dockar-Drysdale
  • Appreciations of Richard Balbernie’s Life and Work
  • Mike Jinks
• Category: Archive Material relating to Fostering
  • Towards an integrated network
  • Looking After Yourself, Helping Each Other – How can yoga support foster carers?
  • Attachment makes the child grow stronger
  • A Question of Balance
  • What it feels like to be a Foster Carer
  • Meeting of Minds: Using the Tavistock model of Child Observation
  • An Attachment-based Treatment of Maltreated Children and Young People
  • Attachment Theory as a Support for Foster Carers and Adoptive Parents
  • Living a Provisional Existence: thinking about foster carers and the emotional containment of children placed in their care
  • Holding the looked after child through reflecting dialogue
  • Extracts III: Nancy Hazel
  • Extracts II: Nancy Hazel
  • Extracts I: Nancy Hazel
  • Fostering Breakdown
• Category: Child Care Video & Audio Archive
  • The Secure Start Podcast, Episode 2: John Whitwell
  • Interview with John Diamond, May 2022
  • Bearing the Unbearable DVD – Conclusion
  • Bearing the Unbearable DVD – Residential Care
  • Bearing the Unbearable DVD – Fostering
  • Bearing the Unbearable DVD – Introduction
  • Barbara Dockar-Drysdale: Full Interview & In Discussion with Sue Navin
  • Two Interviews on the Cotswold Community: Dr Faith Spicer and John Whitwell
  • Mrs Dockar-Drysdale’s Retirement Party – Cotswold Community
  • Bruno Bettelheim Documentary – Horizon, 1986
  • From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step – Archive on 4
  • The Ideas of Donald Winnicott
  • Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein
  • Interview with Isabel Menzies Lyth
• Category: ISP Editorials
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2013
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2012
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2011
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2010
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2009
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2008
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2007
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2006
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2005
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2004
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2003
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2002
  • ISP Newsletter Editorials – 2001