Education & training

Our Collections

In this section:

LENDING COLLECTION

The Library has over 19,000 loan items such as books, e-books, unpublished papers and pamphlets in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, family therapy, forensic psychotherapy, educational psychology, clinical psychology, organisational psychology and social work.

JOURNALS COLLECTION

The Library has subscribes to  220 journals in print and and has access to over 13,000 in electronic format available via the internet. Use the ONE STOP SHOP FOR JOURNALS for a full list of our collection.

REFERENCE COLLECTION

The library maintains a Reference Collection which includes Quick Reference materials, items of high use, and an archive of older material. Reference items are for use in the library only.

THESES COLLECTION

The Library holds copies of past Tavistock Clinic Theses. Details of theses are available on the Library Catalogue. Theses are available to staff and students and are for use in the library only.

AUDIO-VISUAL COLLECTION

The Library holds an extensive Audio-visual Collection, including an archive of Trust lectures and conferences, commercially produced training material and TV programmes. Our archive recordings have been digitised to make them more accessible. AV items may be located via the Library Catalogue under the search terms 'video recording' or 'sound recording' plus a keyword.