ABSTRACT
Mr Gray's outline of the development of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations shows that the later history of the Tavistock Clinic, though a part of the National Health Service, is almost impossible to write without constant reference to the relationship between those two bodies. The anatomy of spatial distribution seemed the best way to distinguish us: the top two floors were 'the Institute', the third and part of the second floor were the 'Adult Department' and the remainder of the second floor and the first floor the 'Children's Department'. A Tavistock consultant from the Adult Department would go out for a half-day of intensive seminars, not otherwise available to these psychiatrists-often brought together from several hospitals. The newly-formed Mental Health Research Fund, perhaps the nearest equivalent to the American Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry, was also initially manned by the same personnel as filled the teaching appointments in academic psychiatry in Britain.
