Pathology of Democracy

Since it was founded in 1920 the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community mental-health which have always been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis. In the last thirty years it has also developed systemic family therapy as a new theoretical model and clinical approach to family problems. The Clinic has become the largest training im3titUtion in Britain for work of this kind providing post-graduate and qualifying courses in social work psychology psychiaay child adolescent and adult psychotherapy and latterly in nursing. It trains about 1200 student each year in over 45 courses.