Most people reading that title ‘understanding of mental health’ will surely take for granted the effort being made to understand mental health is intended to advance science to everyone’s advantage, an advantage that would lead to a better life for all. You must have heard that somewhere before.
This probably won’t come as a shock but they lied. In fact, they spent the entire 20th Century misleading US in particular, and the world, in general.
The Social Engagement of Social Science
Edited by Eric Trist and Hugh Murray
page 5:
Toward the end of the war the existence of a democratic tradition in the Tavistock Clinic made possible the election by the whole staff… of an Interim Planning Committee (IPC) to consider the future of the organization…
This readiness enabled the IPC in 1945 to attract the attention of Alan Gregg, Medical Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was touring the various institutions that had been involved in war medicine. He was interested in finding out if their was a group committed to undertaking, under conditions of peace, the kind of social psychiatry that had developed in the army under conditions of war…
Dr. Alan Gregg, Vice-President since 1951, continues on special assignments both within the Foundation and in public service until his retirement on June 30, 1956.
Just building the framework for the next post, ‘The Birth of the Deep State’.