ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief note on the history of the Tavistock course and its position in a rapidly changing social framework. The Tavistock course is one which is inevitably known as the Kleinian course in child psychotherapy. The Tavistock is an amalgam of organizations and disciplines accountable to different governing bodies. The Clinic itself is within the National Health Service, which supports the bulk of the training of child psychotherapists, as well as the post-graduate training of psychiatrists, psychologists and the advanced training of social workers. If the benefits of psychotherapy as an art-science are to be shared, it must concern itself with society as well as the individual. As analytical psychotherapists we must realize that it is a privilege, as well as a task, to be able to offer or receive an educational resource so rare and so costly in time and money.
