Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatryby S. D. Lamb; Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 299 pages

Too deeply moved to search for originality of expression, I hope that you will allow me to fall back on some of the well-worn phrases in acknowledging the honour conferred on me when I was chosen to be this year's Maudsley lecturer. My reaction was summarized in my reply to the notice which reached me in May, 1957. I wrote: “I accept amidst an understandable struggle between pride and humility. The name ‘Maudsley Lecture’ has an almost hallowed connotation among my professional contemporaries, and this invitation comes to me as a sort of crowning acme of my career.” I am delighted to share my laurels with the Johns Hopkins University, which I joined exactly thirty years ago at the call of Adolf Meyer, whose gigantic contributions to psychiatric theory and practice were attested by the Royal Medico-Psychological Association when he was nominated to be the fourteenth Maudsley Lecturer in 1933. In going over the list of my illustrious predecessors in this series of addresses, beginning with Sir James Crichton Browne and Sir Frederick Mott, I find that I am the second United States psychiatrist to receive so great a distinction. I am certain that I voice the sentiments of my University when I say that it considers this event as an added and happily displayed feather in its richly decorated cap. The Johns Hopkins University has recognized the growing importance of child psychiatry by creating a full professorship in this discipline, and I am pleased to be the symbol of this recognition. And now your Association has indicated its desire that I speak as a child psychiatrist “as this specialty has not been covered in a Maudsley Lecture before”. To have been selected as the first spokesman for child psychiatry in this group is a thrilling experience laden with heavy responsibilities.

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Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0031819197000028 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

pp. 142-150

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