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Tavistock Institute
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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, a novel, interdisciplinary, action orientated research organisation, was founded in London in 1946 with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. It was set up for the specific purpose of actively relating the psychological and social sciences to the needs and concerns of society. In sustaining this endeavour for more than fifty years, it has won international recognition.
The circumstances of World War Two brought together an unusually talented group of psychiatrists, clinical and social psychologists and anthropologists in the setting of the British Army, where they developed a number of radical innovations in social psychiatry and applied social science. They became known as the Tavistock Group because the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. Though only some of them continued their involvement with the post-war Tavistock organisation, those who did built on the war-time achievements to introduce a number of far-reaching developments in several fields. This style of research related theory and practice in a new way.
The objectives of the Institute were to study human relations in conditions
of wellbeing, conflict or breakdown, in the family, the community, the
work group and the larger organisation, and to promote the health and effectiveness
of individuals and organisations.
Since that time, the Tavistock Institute has evolved into an organisation
that does research and consultancy, evaluation and professional development
work in support of change and learning. We try to contribute to the development
of the social sciences by publishing our work. We also own and edit Human
Relations, an international social science journal, and edit the journal
Evaluation.
The Institute was located in the Tavistock Centre in Belsize Park, which we shared with the Tavistock Clinic until the summer of 1994, when we moved to our current office in central London.
More information about us, our publications, our work and our current
interests can be found on this website. A more detailed account of our
history can be found in The Social Engagement of Social Science - A Tavistock
Anthology published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in three volumes
between 1990 and 1997, (ISBN 081228912-6, 081228193-4 and 081228194-2).
A history of the Tavistock Clinic can be found on the website of the Tavistock
& Portman NHS Trust.
http://www.tavinstitute.org/
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