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It is with great pleasure that we congratulate the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology (TIMP) on its centenary and express gratitude for its support of couple and family psychoanalysis. Our current association with TIMP is primarily through its support of clinical work, teaching, and research on couple functioning: TIMP is the legal home of Tavistock Relationships (TR) and sponsors the journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. We are privileged to teach and learn with colleagues and friends at TR and to sit on the journal's International Advisory Board for which we submit and acquire articles—and successfully recruited the American editor of this volume, James Poulton. We are honoured to have been appointed as Senior Fellows of TR, a renowned centre for training, practice, and research in couple therapy, and as Honorary Members of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology (TIMP). These appointments reflect many years of active collaboration and mutual respect going back to the 1970s, before the name Tavistock Relationships had been conceived.
When we were employed at the Tavistock Clinic in 1972-1974, we participated in the work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), the independently funded corporate twin of the National Health Service-funded Tavistock Clinic (Dicks, 1970). It was within TIHR that TR was housed at that time, then called the Institute of Marital Studies (IMS), but neither of us made the connection even though it was housed in the same building. Unfortunately, we lost the opportunity to learn directly from stalwarts such as Douglas Woodhouse and Enid Balint. Our association with IMS began later, after Chris Clulow took over the leadership in 1987.
In 1972-1973, David Scharff left Washington DC to take a sabbatical year as an Honorary Senior Registrar at the Tavistock Clinic in order to learn object relations theory. Placed in the Adolescent Department, he saw adolescent families and studied with Arthur Hyatt Wil