The Maudsley Hospital: Design and Strategic Direction, 1923–1939

Jones, Edgar; Rahman, Shahina; Woolven, Robin

doi:10.1017/s0025727300001484

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“…12 In 1924, a diploma in psychiatric medicine was introduced, designed by the London County Council as akin to medical qualifications in other specialities, such as the diploma of public health. 13 Academic posts were created; for instance, in 1936 Mapother was appointed the first professor of psychiatry at the University of London.…”

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Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital

Kempley¹

2019

Br J Hist Sci

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In 1938, doctors Eric Guttmann and Walter Maclay, two psychiatrists based at the Maudsley Hospital in London, administered the hallucinogenic drug mescaline to a group of artists, asking the participants to record their experiences visually. These artists included the painter Julian Trevelyan, who was associated with the British surrealist movement at this time. Published as ‘Mescaline hallucinations in artists’, the research took place at a crucial time for psychiatry, as the discipline was beginning to edge its way into the scientific arena. Newly established, the Maudsley Hospital received Jewish émigrés from Germany to join its ranks. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, this group of psychiatrists brought with them an enthusiasm for psychoactive drugs and visual media in the scientific study of psychopathological states. In this case, Guttmann and Maclay enlisted the help of surrealist artists, who were harnessing hallucinogens for their own revolutionary aims. Looking behind the images, particularly how they were produced and their legacy today, tells a story of how these groups cooperated, and how their overlapping ecologies of knowledge and experience coincided in these remarkable inscriptions.

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Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital

Kempley¹

2019

Br J Hist Sci

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“…The resignation of Mott as director of the Central Pathological Laboratory in March 1923 did not result in a new research strategy (Jones, Rahman, & Woolven, , p. 358). Frederick Golla was appointed as his successor.…”

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“…In 1923, The Maudsley Hospital opened in London, United Kingdom, to pioneer new forms of treatment for mental illness. An ambitious agenda designed to research and treat severe psychiatric illness was drafted in 1907 by the mental scientist Henry Maudsley and Frederick Mott, a lecturer and physician at Charing Cross Hospital and director of the Central Pathological Laboratory of the London County Council (LCC) Asylums (Allderidge, ; Sharpey‐Schafer, ; Jones, Rahman, & Woolven, ). Mott sought to model the Maudsley Hospital on the university psychiatric clinics of Munich, Berlin, and Heidelberg.…”

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Organ Extracts and the Development of Psychiatry: Hormonal Treatments at the Maudsley Hospital 1923–1938

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Jones²

2012

J History Behavioral Science

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The use of organ extracts to treat psychiatric disorder in the interwar period is an episode in the history of psychiatry which has largely been forgotten. An analysis of case-notes from The Maudsley Hospital from the period 1923-1938 shows that the prescription of extracts taken from animal testes, ovaries, thyroids, and other organs was widespread within this London Hospital. This article explores the way in which Maudsley doctors justified these treatments by tying together psychological theories of the unconscious with experimental data drawn from laboratory studies of human organs. It explores the logic behind these treatments and examines beliefs about their efficacy. The connection between this historical episode and current research in endocrinology and psychology is explored.

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“…The Maudsley Hospital was opened in February 1923 to treat Londoners with mental illness (Jones, Rahman and Woolven, 2007). Unlike the traditional county asylums, all patients were voluntary and no one, however ill, could be detained against their will.…”

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Psychiatric case notes: symptoms of mental illness and their attribution at the Maudsley Hospital, 1924–35

2012

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Case notes of patients treated at the Maudsley Hospital during the interwar period provided data about diagnosis, symptoms and beliefs about mental illness. In the absence of effective treatments, patients were investigated in detail in the hope that connections between disease processes might be revealed. We analysed a randomly-selected sample of 700 patients taken equally from 1924, 1928, 1931 and 1935. Eight groups (three representing psychosis and five indicating psychological disorders) were identified on the basis of symptom clusters. Formal diagnosis did not correlate with clusters. Although there was a measure of agreement between patients and doctors about the cause of mental illness, stigma may have inhibited discussion of some themes. Psychiatric diagnosis was informed by symptoms but not determined by them. In an era before classification systems were tested for reliability, diagnosis was fluid, reflecting changing hypotheses about causation, pathology and treatment. Attributions were associated with diagnosis rather than symptoms.

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The Maudsley Hospital: Design and Strategic Direction, 1923–1939

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital

Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital

Organ Extracts and the Development of Psychiatry: Hormonal Treatments at the Maudsley Hospital 1923–1938

Psychiatric case notes: symptoms of mental illness and their attribution at the Maudsley Hospital, 1924–35

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