ABSTRACT
The promotion of psychoanalysis in its narrower sense however, was never a conscious aim of the founder or of the pre-war Tavistock group. HCM saw in Freud's system the most coherent body of hypotheses with which to do a job which was virtually done nowhere else in Britain. This was the task of understanding and relieving the suffering of all those conditions which had also been the field of interest and study for Freud and his circle, including the deviants, like Jung and Adler: the adult neuroses, perversions, character disorders, including those manifesting chiefly at somatic levels, and it is an important and the precursor states in children as postulated by the psychogenetic theory. The new holistic approach to medicine advocated by the Todd Report will not be achieved under a generation or two and then only if its recommendations are implemented for undergraduates in a balanced introduction to the psychology and sociology of human beings in trouble.
