Alfred Miller, M.B., B.Ch.Dubl.

1924 ◽  
Vol 70 (289) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Rambaut
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Medical Superintendent

By the death of Dr. Alfred Miller, Medical Superintendent of the Warwickshire County Mental Hospital, the medical profession of Warwickshire, the Warwick County Mental Hospital, and the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland have sustained a great loss.

scholarly journals Eléments pour une histoire de la communauté thérapeutique dans la psychiatrie occidentale de la seconde moitié du 20e siècle

Gesnerus ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-540
Author(s):  
Catherine Fussinger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Distinct Approach

Based on a critique of the traditional ruling of mental hospital, therapeutic community is an innovative model elaborated in Great Britain during World War II. According to this approach, all the relationships at work inside the institution have a big impact on the patients’ state. One of the favoured tools of the therapeutic community lies in regular meetings common to patients and staff, but also reserved to professionals. During these sessions small and big problems are intended to be discussed and resolved collectively. The constitution of this approach as a model and its diffusion in continental European psychiatry during the second half of the 20th century is described in this paper. Four stages are distinguished: the genesis, the constitution of a distinct approach and diffusion in Continental Europe, the radicalisation and criticism by the antipsychiatric movement, the institutionalisation and decline.

Sir James Crichton Browne, 1840-1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 519-521
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
The West ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Medical Superintendent ◽  
Care And Treatment

On 31 January 1938, Sir James Crichton-Browne died a few months after his 97th birthday. In him the Royal Society lost its oldest Fellow, both in age and in membership, for he was elected Fellow in 1883, Charles Darwin being one of his proposers. His father, Dr W. A. F. Browne, who was the first Medical Superintendent of the Crichton Royal Mental Hospital at Dumfries, was largely responsible for the high standard of care and treatment of the insane for which this institution has since been famous ; later he became Commissioner in Lunacy in Scotland. It was therefore not surprising that after qualifying in medicine in Edinburgh University at the age of 22, his son decided to devote himself to the study of mental disorders. After serving in junior posts in various county Mental Hospitals he was appointed in 1866 Medical Superintendent of the West Riding Asylum, at Wakefield, a post he held until 1875. It was here his most valuable researches and pioneering work was done.

Klinefelter's Syndrome and Schizophrenia

1980 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
pp. 597-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Pomeroy
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Klinefelter’S Syndrome ◽  
Klinefelter's Syndrome ◽  
X Chromosomes ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
The World ◽  
Average Proportion

The prevalence of Klinefelter's Syndrome in new-born males in large surveys throughout the world has shown a scatter of 1.4 to 1.9 per thousand. Forssman (1970) accepted by pooling results a figure of 0.17 per cent as the average proportion of males born with at least one too many X chromosomes in some or all cell lines. Studies of mental hospital populations have consistently shown a higher prevalence of extra X chromosomes in males, averaging 0.54 per cent. The two largest studies, in Great Britain (Maclean et al, 1968) and in Sweden (Hambert, 1966) made no differentiation in the psychiatric diagnosis of the patients, although Hambert stated that the high prevalence did not stem from the mentally retarded population.

A Review of Seven Years' Malarial Therapy in General Paralysis

1932 ◽  
Vol 78 (323) ◽  
pp. 843-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals

Shortly after the introduction of therapeutic malaria into this country, the Ministry of Health and the Board of Control, in consultation with the London County Council Mental Hospitals Department, established a special centre for this treatment at Horton Mental Hospital. A separate villa in the hospital grounds was set apart for the work, and, through the interest, advice and help of Col. S. P. James, M.D., F.R.S., of the Ministry of Health, a laboratory was equipped and arrangements were made for the supply of malarial infective material to all parts of Great Britain. The work was begun in April, 1925, and during the seven years that have elapsed since then, 200 cases have been treated. These cases are all women, drawn from the various London County Mental Hospitals; recently, however, an annexe has been added to the centre, and facilities are now available for treating men also.

Cross-National Comparisons of Projected Social Distances from Mental Patient-Related Stimuli

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 881-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean G. Graubert ◽  
Leonore Loeb Adler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Mental Patient ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Placement Procedure ◽  
Cross National

A figure-placement procedure was used to assess attitudes toward mental patients and related items by measuring projected social distances which students from Australia, Great Britain, South Africa, and the U.S.A. perceived between themselves and several pertinent stimuli. While all male students responded similarly to all items, the responses of the female students were only similar on the neutral items and showed significant differences on the mental patient-related items. However, for all students the items “Mental Hospital,” “Male,” and “Female Mental Patient” were always most distant. The power of attraction to the opposite sex for most male students was interesting; despite differences between groups, none reflected such attraction for the “Female Mental Patient.”

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