ABSTRACT
In 1947 the Professional Committee had done its best to create the optimal establishment for the Tavistock's staff for the appointed day. There were many who, as already mentioned, declined National Service and did not stay, and other who had preferred to work in other N.H.S. clinics or hospitals. So on the appointed day the following senior staff went into the Health Service: Medical Director, J. D. Sutherland; Deputy Director, John Bowlby. There were three other full-time consultants in the Adult Department. I returned after a brief and joyless tenure of the Leeds Chair to a full-time appointment in charge of one of the clinical units already mentioned, with John Kelnar in charge of the other unit. In addition, Henry Ezriel was newly appointed as consultant in charge of developing group methods. Major part-time appointments on the consultant staff were those of Mary Luff with six sessions, Leopold Stein (in charge of the speech unit) with five sessions, A. Geoffrey Thompson with eight sessions. The other part-time consultants were C. Boenheim, J. J. M. Jacobs, R. Evelyn Lucas, Erwin Popper, Amy M. Thorns, Alfred Torrie, A. T. M. Wilson and Eric Wittkower. F. T. Shadforth was somewhat more loosely attached, as he was about to become a consultant at Brighton. Our senior registrars were at this time: in the Adult Department, Elizabeth Loebl and R. E. D. Markillie, also a registrar with me at Leeds. There were two honorary psychiatrists not on the Health Service strength who were soon to leave us, W. R. Bion and Desmond Irwin, who gave as many sessions as possible. Bion did not wish to serve in the N.H.S., and returned to his basic work, psychoanalysis, in whose counsels he was to play a leading role. Our psychological staff consisted of Herbert Phillipson assisted by John Boreham and Gerald Staunton, all full-time. Our psychiatric social workers were Mrs Mary Williams, Mrs Marjorie Sprince and Miss Doris Tamplin. In the Children's Department there was but one consultantnamely, John Bowlby, full-time. He was assisted, however, by a
large staff of senior registrars and registrars: P. J. R. Davis, H. Dugmore Hunter and Julian Katz (now in Australia), and at the more junior level by Elizabeth Kramer, Agnes M. Main, (wife of our good friend, Tom Main) and Jeannie Stirratt. The psychological staff of the Children's Department was also larger than that of the Adult Department. Headed by Miss Constance Simmins, there were five others:J. Bremner, Miss M. Flanders, Mrs B. Michaels, Mrs Yana Popper and Miss Doris Wills. We had also appointed two highly qualified child psychotherapists, non-medical, in the persons of Miss Theodora Alcock and Mrs E. Bick. There were four psychiatric social workers, headed by Noel Hunnybun, Miss Elizabeth Brown, Robert Tod, and last but not least James Robertson. He was employed under John Bowlby on a research grant from the Halley Stewart Trust, with which they began their now famous research into the effects on young children of separation from their mother. We also now had a salaried and full-time Librarian, Miss Daphne Seamark. In charge of the physical diagnostic services we retained Dr J. Barrie-Murray for adults and Dr Ronald MacKeith as paediatric consultant. Dr Marjorie Garrod remained medical officer in charge of records on a part-time basis.
