According to Eric Trist, another key member of the original Tavistock group: Rees was appointed consulting psychiatrist to the British Army during the Second World War, and obtained the rank of brigadier. He began to make plans to establish an Institute of Medical Psychology, with beds and more opportunities to train people in psychiatric methods, and bought a site in Bloomsbury to build it, but his plans were halted by the outbreak of World War II.
Rees was one of the key figures at the original Tavistock Clinic and became its medical director from 1933. As well as educating others at the clinic, Rees took the DPH in 1920 and MRCP in 1936. The clinic specialised in the new 'dynamic psychologies' of Sigmund Freud and his followers, and in particular the Object relations theory of Ronald Fairbairn and others.
Mary also joined the staff of the Tavistock Clinic. Their marriage occurred shortly after Rees and Crichton-Miller created the Tavistock Square Clinic for Functional Nervous Disorders, a voluntary hospital which opened in 1920. Rees married Mary Isobel Hemingway (10 September 1887 – 4 October 1954), the resident medical officer at Bowden House, in 1921. Hugh Crichton-Miller invited Rees to work with him at a private psychiatric nursing home, Bowden House, Harrow on the Hill. After being invalided back to London for a time, Rees was placed in charge of a motor ambulance unit in Mesopotamia until 1919, when he demobilised with the rank of Captain. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1914, and later became a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he was honoured Chevalier de l’ordre de la couronne belge for his work with Belgian civilians. Rees was finishing his medical education at the London Hospital when World War I began. įollowing his degree, Rees worked at the Victoria Park Chest Hospital, studying tuberculosis. He then attended King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Medicine and Natural Science and played water polo. After a period spent at Leeds, most of Rees education took place at Bradford Grammar School. 5 President of World Federation for Mental Healthīorn in Leicester to the Methodist minister Reverend Montgomery Rees and his wife Catharine Millar, John Rawlings Rees experienced frequent relocations during his early life as his father moved from manse to manse.4 The end of the War and Operation Phoenix.
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