ABSTRACT
In 1945, the Tavistock Clinic moved to a new address and formed the Interim Medical Committee to develop and apply a new policy that would meet the socio-psychiatric needs of postwar Britain. The Tavistock Group planned to extend the Clinic with a new institute to study and offer solutions to social psychological problems in post-war Britain. The Clinic formed a Technical Executive Committee to establish policies and practices for training of doctors and psychiatric social workers and to gain recognition for the planned Institute, and for publishing its work. The Tavistock Group had long felt that members on the Tavistock Council and medical members in Clinic should work closely and seek advice regularly on possible projects, and that Council members could participate in projects. To overcome financial problems, the Institute and the Clinic wanted to have on their Council members who supported Institute as a new type of social science institution with a Management Committee elected by its working staff.
