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A Very Victorian Psychiatrist

1840-1937

Sir James Crichton-Browne

Family History and Early Days

Wakefield Years

London: Visitor In Lunacy

The Carlyles

Personal Life

Conclusions

Honours, Publications

References and Links

Dateline Froude

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Links and References

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  References

Links

Perhaps surprisingly, there is a fair selection of links to Sir James. A search at the time of writing (Oct,2000) produces many references to the text of Darwin's Expression of the Emotion in Man and Animals, which is available on the internet. See Chapter 13 for example, for a Crichton-Browne contribution to shyness and blushing,  Phillip Prodger has produced an annotated catalogue of the illustrations, including Crichton-Browne's photographic contributions.

The Crichton Royal background, and his father's work is well described in a Dumfries site written by John Williams.

A good summary of the work by Jackson and Ferrier carried out at Wakefield is provided by R M Young in The Functions of the Brain - Gall to Ferrier(1808-1886).

For the historical psychiatric background, an exhaustive annotated list of books and journal references is available in Hilary Marland's notes for her course on 'Madness and Society from Bedlam to the Present' at the University of Warwick. Pity the poor students who are supposed to cover this ground in one session!

A portrait of Crichton-Browne by Hannah Gluckstein, 1928, is catalogued at the National Portrait Gallery. 

And you will be pleased to learn that Crichton-Browne was immortalised on a cigarette card in a series of Famous Scots published by Mitchell, Ardath in 1935.

References

See also under Carlyle references

Ballantyne, James  John Hutton Balfour-Browne, KC The Gallovidian,5,20,Winter, 1903, 175-180

Bynum, Potter and Shepherd (Eds) Anatomy of madness, 1:96 , discusses Crichton-Browne’s time at Wakefield.

Broughton, Trev The Froude-Carlyle Embroilment: Married Life as a Literary Problem. Victorian Studies, 1995, 38, 4, 551-585.

Clubbe J (Ed.) Carlyle and his Contemporaries Duke UP, 1976

Clubbe, J   Grecian Destiny: Froude's Portraits of Carlyle ( in above)

Crichton-Browne, J,   Froude and Carlyle - The Imputation considered Medically. Brit Med J, 1903, 1498-1502.

Crichton-Browne, J.  The Nemesis of Froude: A Rejoinder to J A Froude’s ‘My Relations with Carlyle,’  John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1903.

Crichton-Browne, J. The Prevention of Senility, and A Sanitary Outlook; Two Addresses, London, Macmillan, 1905

Crichton-Browne, J. The Story of Brain, Edinburgh and London, Oliver and Boyd, 1924

Crichton-Browne, J.  Burns: From a New Point of View  Hodder and Stoughton, 1926.

Crichton-Browne, J Some Early Crichton Memories in Easterbrook, Charles The Chronicle of Crichton Royal (1833-1936), Dumfries, Courier Press, 1940

Dunn, WH Froude: a Biography Two vols, Oxford, 1961-1963

*Dunn W H Froude and Carlyle: a Study of the Froude-Carlyle Controversy NY 1930

Houghton, Walter E. The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 Yale U.P., 1957

Neve, Michael and Turner, Trevor  What the Doctor thought and did: Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938) Medical History, 1995, 39, 399-432

Obituary notices; Times, Feb, 1938; Brit Med J, 1938,1,331; Lancet, 1938,1,331;

Dic. Nat. Biography, 1931-40, 106-7,; Obit. Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, no 7, Jan. 1939.

Oppenheim, Janet The Other World. Cambridge University Press, 1983

Oppenheim, Janet Shattered Nerves: Doctors, Patients and Depression in Victorian England  NY/Oxford UP, 1991  

Peterson, M Jeanne The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London.  Berkeley, U California Press, 1978

Scull, A, Mackenzie, C and Hervey, N  Masters of Bedlam, Princeton, 1996. Chapter on W A F Browne

Storr, Anthony Psychiatry and Literary Biography, in Batchelor, John (Ed) The Art of Literary Biography, Oxford, 1995

Todd, John and Ashworth, Lawrence The West Riding Asylum and James Crichton-Browne in Berrios, G E and Freeman, H – 150 Years of British Psychiatry, 1841-1991, Gaskell, 1991

Towne JE  Carlyle and Oedipus Psychoanalytic Review, 1935, 22, 297-305

Turner, Trevor James Crichton-Browne and the Anti-Psychoanalysts, in Freeman, H and Berrios, G E 150 Years of British Psychiatry, Vol 2, The Aftermath

Viets, Henry R West Riding, 1871-1876 Bull. Hist. Med, 1938, 6:477-487  

Walmsley, Tom   Psychiatry in descent: Darwin and the Brownes Psychiatric Bulletin, 1993, 17, 748-751

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