If you wish to cite these pages and need my name and titles, here they are:
I M Ingram MD, FRCPsych, DPM
Retired Consultant Psychiatrist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland. Former Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow.
I have a page on psychobiography at the Royal College of Psychiatrist's website.
I was a psychiatrist in a general hospital and university department in Glasgow for most of my working life. My research interests and publications include work on obsessional neurosis and personality, psychiatric aspects of abortion, and the efficacy of teaching. I have always had an interest in psychiatry and literature, lecturing on Johnson and Boswell and James Joyce, and also on psychiatric disorder in composers such as Schumann and Donizetti. I also study the diary or journal as a literary form. I have written two thrillers but have not attempted to publish them, probably wisely.
In retirement I devote most of my time to chamber music, playing violin and viola, mostly in quartets and quintets.
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I am married with a married son and daughter and three granddaughters.
I have been interested in Virginia Woolf for some years. The material presented here is unpublished elsewhere - it began as a draft paper, and grew like Topsy, but not enough to make a satisfactory book. Publishing it on the net, and having feedback from so many different people and countries around the world, has given me much pleasure. I hope it will provide the raw material for anybody interested in this
subject to pursue it further.
The Thomas Carlyle section, was completed in the summer of '99. It is an extensive hypertext, designed to prove readable for readers requiring varying degrees of detail, and to provide background documentation for those interested, together with integral links to other net sites.
The most recent pages, on Sir James Crichton-Browne and on Jane Carlyle, were
first published here in October and November, 2000.
'Crichton-Browne and the Carlyles' was published in the Carlyle Society Papers, 2001, New Series No 13. Later additions to the site made in November, 2002, including a paper given to the Carlyle Society in Edinburgh in October, 2002, on 'Virginia Woolf, the Stephens and the Carlyles'. A paper on Margaret Carlyle's breakdown in 1817 was published in the Carlyle Society Papers in 2004, and is now available here online. 2005 sees the addition of a substantial biography of Dr John Aitken Carlyle, and a paper on his life as a Travelling Physician, given to the Carlyle Society in October, 2005. A Carlyle Society paper given in 2006: The Carlyle and the Fraser Criminal Conversation Case of 1844 is also on the site.