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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a charity concerned with Group Behaviour and Organisational Behaviour . It was launched in 1946, when it separated from the Tavistock Clinic . HISTORY OF THE TAVISTOCK The Institute was founded in 1946 by a group of key figures at the Tavistock Clinic including Henry Dicks, Leonard Browne, Ronald Hargreaves, John Rawlings Rees , Mary Luff and Wilfred Bion , with Tommy Wilson as chairman, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation . Other well-known names that joined the group later were Jock Sutherland , John Bowlby , Eric Trist , and Fred Emery . Kurt Lewin , a member of the Frankfurt School in America, was an important influence on the work of the Tavistock, according to Eric Trist, who expresses his admiration for Lewin in his autobiography. Many of these founding members of the Tavistock Institute went on to play major roles in world affairs. Brigadier John Rawlings Rees became first president of the World Federation For Mental Health . {Link without Title} Jock Sutherland became director of the new post-war Tavistock Clinic, when it was incorporated into the newly established British Press in three volumes between 1990 and 1997. FOCAL POINT FOR PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORY Many well-known psychologists and psychiatrists have passed through the Tavistock Institute over the years, and it became known as the focal point in Britain for psychoanalysis and the psychodynamic theories of , which he suggested might be a natural and understandable curative process, rather than a disease of the mind. His views of schizophrenia, based largely on the concept of Family Nexus , were explained in a series of famous books such as ''Sanity, Madness and the Family''. Laing is often associated with the Antipsychiatry movement. CURRENT ACTIVITIES According to its website, the Institute engages in educational, research, and consultancy work in the Social Sciences and Applied Psychology . Its clients are chiefly public sector organizations, including the European Union , several British Government departments, and some private clients. The Institute has its own publishing house, and owns and edits ''Human Relations'', the international social sciences journal. It also edits the journal ''Evaluation''. It provides two MSc degree courses:
RELATION TO OTHER 'TAVISTOCKS' The Tavistock Institute shares common roots with other organisations that also emerged from the Tavistock Clinic. This is a source of much confusion, though the facts can be ascertained from the historical account of the Tavistock by Eric Trist, one time chairman of the Institute. {Link without Title} The Clinic is now part of a National Health Service trust, while the "Tavistock Institute", which once did research in many areas and was funded by many sources, is now a charity. The name "Tavistock Instutute of Medical Psychology", which was the name used for the original parent body, is now used to refer to an organization that grew out of that parent body but now specializes in couples relationships under the section name of the "Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships". NOTES FURTHER READING
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