Founding President of World Federation For Mental Health
After the war, Rees became first president of the World Federation for Mental Health. There is an annual Rees lecture in memory of Rees' wife, Mary Rees Hemingway, "among the first staff members at the Tavistock Clinic when it was founded in 1920" and "one of the founders of the WFMH" with her husband.
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