Collection H57 - TAVISTOCK AND PORTMAN NHS TRUST

143 linear metres

H57 1930-1979 Collection 143 linear metres Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was established in 1994. It is the leading NHS mental health postgraduate training organisation, with more than 120 professional staff providing training for over 1200 students each year. Each year around 3000 patients are seen in the Clinics, with an annual average of around 47,000 attendances

The Tavistock Clinic was established by Dr Hugh Crighton-Millar in 1920. It was opened as a response to the effects of the First World War which left many men permanently scarred by the brutality of battle. The effects of emotional trauma, 'shell shock', were not widely understood or treated by doctors at the end of the War, it was the work of Hugh Crighton-Millar which changed this. He opened the clinic in Tavistock Square to be a place where people who were struggling to hold on to their work could find understanding. He continually stressed the importance of respect to even the most foolish of patients.

Between 1932 and 1939 there were major advances in treatment and training, with considerable growth in the number of staff and trainees. Many of those trained at the Tavistock went on to occupy leading positions in the fields of psychiatry and child guidance in the UK and overseas. During the Second World War the Clinic moved to Hampstead and the greater part of the trained staff joined the armed forces as psychiatric specialists. The war-time experiences they encountered were to influence the Clinic for the remainder of the century. In the post-war period research and development at the Tavistock had a radical impact of several aspects of medical practice, including GP training and practice, child care in hospital, and health and social policy.

In July 1948 the Tavistock Clinic became part of the NHS. It moved to its current position in Belsize Lane in 1967.

The origins of the Portman Clinic lie in a report to the Medical Research Council by Dr Grace Pailthorpe. She was concerned with 'what we put in prison' and was a co-founder of the Clinic. The Portman was established at a time when new ideas about the psychological and psychoanalytical treatment of offenders were arousing great excitement. This resulted in the foundation of the Association for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency. The clinical part of the association opened as the 'Psychophic Clinic' for the out-patient treatment of offenders. By 1949 it was called the Portman Clinic, after its location in Portman Square, and had joined the NHS. The Clinic moved to its present location in Belsize Lane in 1970.

B99/073, B99/099, B01/069.

Patient case files from the Portman Clinic and the Tavistock Clinic, 1930-1979.

These records are arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: General Hospital Administration (A), Patients' Administration (B), Finance Office (D), Endowments (E), Related Documentation (Y) and Prints and Photographs (PH).

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright: Depositor.
English

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. February 2009 Psychology Shell shock Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Pathology Diseases Psychological trauma Psychiatric hospital patients Medical institutions Health services Hospitals Psychiatric hospitals Patients Social problems Delinquency Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Portman Clinic Tavistock Clinic Belsize Park London England UK Western Europe Europe Neuroses Mental diseases Psychopathology Psychiatry Camden

B99/073, B99/099, B01/069.

Patient case files from the Portman Clinic and the Tavistock Clinic, 1930-1979.

These records are arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: General Hospital Administration (A), Patients' Administration (B), Finance Office (D), Endowments (E), Related Documentation (Y) and Prints and Photographs (PH).

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright: Depositor.

• English

• Latin

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English