APA Dictionary of Psychology

a major British provider of clinical mental health services, set up in Tavistock Square, London, in 1919. It became a part of the National Health Service in 1947, when the separate Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was founded to relate the psychological and social sciences to the needs of society. In 1994, the Tavistock Clinic and the Portman Clinic became a trust of the National Health Service and its leading organization for providing postgraduate training in mental health.