Kamalini (née Khatau) Sarabhai (1925–1981) was a clinician who trained and worked at the Tavistock Clinic in the UK.
She married industrialist Gautam Sarabhai and the couple had two children Mana and Shyama.
[3] In 1951, along with her partner Gautam Sarabhai, and American psychologists Lois Barclay Murphy and Gardner Murphy, she set up the Bakubhai Mansukhai Institute of Mental Health (BM Institute), which was in the lines of the Tavistock Clinic School of Family Psychiatry and Community Mental Health;[1] with a basis on child‐focused research and practice aimed to supply a foundation for constructive programmes in mental hygiene, education, family and group living.
The Institute of contributed to psychological research in India throughout the 1960s and 1970s and experimented with child psychology, behavioural therapy, cures for mental illnesses and autism and was frequented by various psychiatrists and psychologists including Erik H. Erikson.
Kamalini Sarabhai remained the director of the BM Institute from its founding until her death in 1981.