1. Isabel Menzies-Lyth: Personal reflections.
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Segal, Julia
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INTERPERSONAL relations ,NURSING services ,SOCIAL skills ,MULTIPLE sclerosis ,COUNSELING - Abstract
This is a personal account of being supervised by Isabel Menzies-Lyth (1917–2008) when the author was beginning a career as a counsellor for people with multiple sclerosis, when counselling itself was finding its place in society in the early 1980s. Isabel Menzies-Lyth was a sociologist born in Scotland, the only woman amongst those who founded the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. An analyst, herself analysed by Wilfred Bion, she is best remembered for a paper she published in 1959: 'A case-study in the functioning of social systems as a defence against anxiety. A report on a study of the nursing service of a general hospital'. This paper describes the huge debt owed to her by her supervisee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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