The Taos Institute is a pueblo, or community, of scholars and practitioners working to explore, develop and extend the implications of social constructionism within a multitude of professional practices. The Tavistock Clinic was established in 1920. It is a training institution for psychotherapists including adult psychoanalytic psychotherapists and child psychotherapists. It combines research in the social sciences with professional practice.
Clients range from multinationals to small community groups.
A growth area has been the use of a developmental approach in evaluating new and experimental programmes, particularly in health, education and community development. This has also produced new training events in addition to the regular programme of group relations conferences. The Tavistock Marital Studies Institute provides couple therapy, trainings in couple therapy, consultations to couples in distress as well as courses for therapists and counsellors working with couples, consultation to professionals, lectures, workshops and conferences. The course will provide an introduction to key theoretical concepts useful in working with couples. Particular attention will be given to the context in which the worker sees the couple, and the particular difficulties that face couples with fertility problems.