Jonathan Bradley – författare

This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic. It describes the evolution and contemporary practice of work discussion in relation to a wide range of professional work with children, adolescents, and families.

This unique collection of fifty poems and short prose pieces, twenty-five by each of the authors, is bound together in a very unusual way - by genetics.;Sister and brother Jenny and Jonathan share many things, including the desire to write. Their styles and approaches are often different (but aren't any two poets?). What binds and underlies these poems is their shared family experiences. Some are written in free form and others in traditional forms such as the sonnet; some rhyme, and some use other means of enjoying the beauty of language to convey emotion or atmosphere. There is one poem in French, and pieces about many different countries and places.;The deep pull of the sea, a spell in France, a love of nature and adventure, together with enquiring minds through family trips, holidays and debate: these were their inspiration. There are poems on all of these subjects, as well as one composed by each of them on being siblings.Jenny and Jonathan lived as young children in the North East of England. They then went with their parents for several months to the USA and Canada. Later they lived in Marseille and Paris before returning to the UK. Their parents spent some years in Belgium and all members of the family travelled widely in many parts of the world.;Both accomplished in their own right as published authors, they have now worked together to produce an entertaining and varied set of poems ranging from humour to deep grief, from Cambodia to Cornwall. There is often reflection in these poems, particularly in response to events such as lockdown. Overall a far ranging and thought-provoking collection.

City Sonnets presents a poet's view of modern city life in all its variety. Thirty-six sonnets written in traditional form explore the dark and the light, the rich and the poor, the ugly and the beautiful. There are poems about a beggar, cathedrals, van drivers and concert halls, cats and rats and many other topics. Each one has a colour illustration that complements the vivid evocation of urban existence in the verse. The writing explores what it means to be a human being living among many others, with all the tensions, anxieties, pleasures and joys that they experience. The sonnet form, with its fourteen lines, regular metre and rhyming scheme, brings a sharp focus on the practicalities and dreams of city living.

'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the descriptions offered here, both by students and by experienced staff, fully demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach, both to training and to a wide variety of work situations. The book first outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, both in Britain and abroad, in which that method has been successfully applied. The contributors draw on experiences across age, culture, and race in, for example, schools, hospitals, residential homes, in a prison, and in a refugee community. The final chapter explores the implications of work discussion for research and policy-making more generally. Many of the situations narrated here are extreme, whether in terms of disturbance or of vulnerability, but these pages offer often moving insights into how effective the method can be and how truly impressive a developmental model it provides.'- Margot Waddell, from the Series Editor's Preface