Tiago Mendes is a psychologist who holds an MBA (Rice University, US) and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (University of Essex, UK). Tiago started his career working with vulnerable adolescents in residential childcare. Since then, he has given consultations to a wide range of organisations, focusing especially on the child protection field in Portugal. Tiago also provides training courses at university level for professionals working in residential childcare.
With close attention to Wilfred Bion's influence on the literature about groups and organisations, this book explores how containment has been transposed from the clinical setting to enlighten the... (more)