Who We Are
PHILIP STOKOE B.Sc. M.Sc. CQSW F.Inst.Psychoanal.
A Director of a Primary Care Trust comments:
I have worked with Philip both as my coach and then as a coach for members of my team as the need arose.
As my coach, Philip helped me find strategies to deal with some pretty difficult situations as a new director. It was a safe place to work through my challenges. I would highly recommend him to any director who is managing complex change /relationships.
Philip also understands the dynamics and politics of the NHS which is an added bonus.
I would highly recommend Philip.
Philip Stokoe is a Psychoanalyst (Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis) in private practice working with adults and couples, and an Organisational Consultant, providing consultation to a wide range of organisations since he qualified in 1983 at the Tavistock Centre. He was Honorary Visiting Professor, Mental Health for 3 years at City University; where he is helping to set up a radically new way to train Mental Health Nurses based on psychoanalytic principles. He worked as a Consultant Social Worker in the Adult Department of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust between 1994 and 2012 where he was the Clinical Director of the Adult Department from 2007 to 2011. He has developed a reputation as a successful teacher and has taught and written about the application of psychoanalysis in a wide range of settings; Supervision, Leadership, Groups, Organisations, Ethics, Borderline Disorder, Adolescence, Residential Work, Working with victims of Sexual Abuse, Psychological Services in the NHS, Couple Relationships, and Politics. He has particular interest in human creativity as it relates to the development of the mind and the central role of curiosity and interest. His early experience as an actor has left him with an abiding interest in Theatre, Art and Cinema.
Further Details below…
Achievements:
Whilst at the Tavistock he developed a model for understanding organisational dynamics which has come to be called the Healthy Organisation Model.
The Healthy Organisation Model is the core of an intervention on the border between training and consultation called the Short Course Intervention, which has been run successfully at all levels from ‘shop floor’ to Boardroom in a wide range of organisations and settings.
He ran the supervision workshop in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic between 1999 and 2007 which reflects his particular interest in supervision.
During his time as Clinical Director, he designed a service providing Mental Health interventions for complex conditions run in Primary Care settings which was commissioned by City & Hackney and has produced excellent outcome results.
He was a key member of the Ethics Committee of the Society of Psychoanalytical Marital Psychotherapists and was instrumental in the design of their ethical code.
With his wife, Mary Morgan, he has developed a theory about a stage of human development that they call the ‘Creative Couple’ state of mind.
He has a long history of management and innovation in residential therapeutic care of Children and Adolescents and continues to provide advice and consultation to this sector.
He developed a version of the Short Course as a Masters Level professional qualification for front line care staff in partnership with others at the Tavistock Clinic (known as M19) and then adapted that in partnership with Peper Harow as a Masters Level training in Residential Therapeutic Care (known as M24).
Membership of Professional Associations:
Full Member of British Psycho-analytical Society:
Member of the APP (Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the National Health Service).
Member of OPUS
Publications.
Chapter 4: Holding the Boundaries in The Invisible Matrix, Sasha Brookes & Pauline Hodson (Eds), 2000, Rebus Press.
Chapter 6: Group Thinking in Therapeutic Communities for Children & Young People, Kajetan Kasinski, Jane Pooley, Adrian Ward, & Alan Worthington (Eds) 2003.
Chapter 9: The Theory and Practice of the Group Relations Conference in The Groups Book, Psychoanalytic Group Therapy: Principles and Practice, Caroline Garland (Ed), 2010, Karnac Books.
Chapter 13: The Healthy and the Unhealthy Organisation: how can we help teams to remain effective? In Containment in the Community: Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health, Alla Rubitel and David Reiss (Ed), 2011 Karnac Books.
“James Fisher (1937-2012) An Appreciation” in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Vol 3 No. 1, pp 120-127; 2013.
Review of Richard III at Tobacco Factory, Bristol in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Vol 3 No. 2, pp 263-266; 2013
With Mary Morgan; “Curiosity” in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis – Couple and Family Psychoanalysis,Vol 4, No. 1, pp 42-55; 2014
“Ethics and Complaints Procedures for Psychoanalytic Organisations: Some thoughts about principles.” In Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Vol 5 No. 2; pp 188-204; 2015
Currently writing a book on the application of psychoanalysis based on the lectures and experiences of the Short Course Intervention.