Professor of organisational behaviour at the London Graduate School of Business Studies Alexander Thomson Macbeth Wilson MD RAMC FRCPsych FBPsS FRSA (also known as 'Tommy') (1906 – 14 September 1978) was a British psychiatrist who was a pioneer of therapeutic communities.
In 1937, Wilson and Daniel T. Davies (from the Royal Free Hospital) published a paper on gastric conditions suggesting that stress played a key role in the development of peptic ulcers.
As a result of these pilot studies, in April 1945 the first Civil Resettlement Unit (CRU) opened at Hatfield House.
[5] In July, the King and Queen visited the unit, resulting in significant media coverage for the programme and Wilson's military colleague Colonel Dick Rendel.
[7] He and his Tavistock colleague Eric Trist wrote to propose the creation of a journal in partnership with Kurt Lewin and his group at MIT.
Wilson continued as chairman of the Tavistock management committee until 1958, when he was appointed adviser to Unilever on the use of social science.
Wilson left Unilever in 1970, when he became Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Graduate School of Business Studies.