The Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory