ABSTRACT
A fair proportion of senior staff had served their proper psychiatric apprenticeships elsewhere and held the Diploma in Psychological Medicine or MDs in Psychiatry. Mr Donald Crichton-Miller continues with an atrocity story which perhaps reveals his father's outrage at the 'arrogance' and independence of the newer staff members. The concept of family therapy, of regarding the family as a unity and the patient's difficulties in no small measure related to the interpersonal nexus with the parents, runs with great continuity through the theoretical base on which the Tavistock Clinic and the later Institute of Human Relations was developing. If J. R. Rees was not a giant in original contribution to theoretical psychopathology, he was certainly a man keenly and generously interested in applying the results of other people's work to the notion of prevention and to the epidemiology of mental disorder within the range of conditions with which people dealt.
