Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

For the independent charity focusing on group relations, see Tavistock Institute. For the arm of the charitable Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, see Tavistock Relationships.
"Tavistock Centre" redirects here. For the gender identity clinic for children, see NHS Gender Identity Development Service.

The Tavistock Clinic – Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Formation1920
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°32′48″N 0°10′29″W / 51.5466°N 0.1748°W / 51.5466; -0.1748
Chair
Paul Burstow
Websitetavistockandportman.nhs.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust based in north London. The Trust specialises in talking therapies. The education and training department caters for 2,000 students a year from the United Kingdom and abroad. The Trust is based at the Tavistock Centre in Swiss Cottage. The founding organisation was the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology founded in 1920 by Hugh Crichton-Miller.[1]

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was formed in 1994, when the Tavistock Clinic merged with the neighbouring Portman Clinic in Fitzjohns Avenue.[2][3] The Portman specialises in areas of forensic psychiatry, including the treatment of addictive, sociopathic and criminal behaviours and tendencies.[4]

It has developed as a centre for psychoanalysis within the NHS since being included at its founding in 1948.[5]

The Trust and predecessor organisations have been influential beyond medicine, including in the British Army, management consultancy, prison and probation services.[6][7]

  1. ^ Crichton-Miller, Hugh (1922). The New Psychology and the Parent. Jarrolds. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Tavistock Centre". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  3. ^ Huffington, Clare; Halton, William; Armstrong, David; Pooley, Jane (2019). Working Below the Surface: The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-429-92423-1.
  4. ^ "Portman Clinic". Cindex, Council for London Borough of Camden.
  5. ^ Elliott, Anthony; Prager, Jeffrey (2016). The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-317-30820-1.
  6. ^ Gossling, Glenn (March 2021). "Celebrating 100 Years of the Tavistock and Portman" (PDF). New Associations. British Psychoanalytic Council. p. 7. ISSN 2042-9096.
  7. ^ Dicks, H. V. (1970). Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic (Psychology Revivals). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315743028. ISBN 978-1-315-74302-8.