Kamalini Sarabhai

Kamalini (née Khatau) Sarabhai (1925–1981) was a clinician who trained and worked at the Tavistock Clinic in the UK. She brought psychoanalytic practices to India when she and partner Gautam Sarabhai established the B.M. Institute of Mental Health in Ahmedabad in 1966.

Life and work Kamalini is daughter of Dharamsey Mulraj Khatau and his wife Champubai Khatau who owned the Khatau Group of Companies. She married industrialist Gautam Sarabhai and the couple had two children Mana and Shyama. The Sarabhai family was closely associated with prominent psychoanalysts including Erik H. Erikson. In the early 1940s Kamalini along with their two daughters traveled to London to pursue a six-year psychoanalytic training at the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS) and the Tavistock Clinic. There, she developed a connection with Anna Freud and also became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS) with a special interest in child development.