Pioneers in forensic psychiatry. Maurice Hamblin Smith: The psychoanalytic panacea

Bowden, Paul

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“…4 See, for example Elkan (1953), Lacquer andMyers (1954) and Tilley (1953) Bowden, 1996.) 6 Those wishing to pursue the history of the contributions made by psychiatrists sympathetic to a fusion of psychoanalytic ideas with work with offenders should consult the excellent series of articles on Pioneers in Forensic Psychiatry, published during the first decade of the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, notably the contributions on the work and lives of Hamblin-Smith (Bowden, 1990) and Norwood East (Bowden, 1991). Other accounts of pioneers in the series have included Mercier, Prichard -and the life and work of doctors Peter Scott and Trevor Gibbens.…”

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Psychoanalysis and probation practice: A brief additional perspective on Smith

Prins

2007

Probation Journal

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Psychoanalysis and probation practice: A brief additional perspective on Smith

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“…As Oliver sat with magistrates in Baltimore, Hamblin Smith pioneered a new unit in 1920 at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham. England pro viding medical reports for court on prison inmates, (Bowden, 1990). Had he chosen the court instead of the prison as the site for his new unit, the evolution of forensic psychiatry in this country might have proceeded differently.…”

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Psychiatric court clinics in the United States

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1992

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The conditions endured by mentally disordered defendants remanded in custody have been the subject of mounting concern in England. The Home Office has issued guidelines which encourage the diversion of the mentally disordered from the criminal justice system whenever possible. In an attempt to reduce the number of custodial medical remands, new schemes have been set up which target the magistrates' court, instead of the remand prison, as the site for psychiatric assessment (Joseph & Potter, 1990; James & Hamilton, 1991). These schemes are in their infancy and currently suffer from a lack of funding and have yet to find general acceptance from hospital based psychiatric services.

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Pioneers in forensic psychiatry. william norwood east: The acceptable face of psychiatry

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1991

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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English criminology. Norwood East and his contemporaries were, however, difficult for Mannheim to categorize. They were not classicists like Bentham and Beccaria who saw crime as an abstract concept and were concerned with ideas such as guilt, responsibility and punishment. Neither were they positivists like Lombroso and Ferri who repudiated metaphysical speculations, based their views on observable facts and social laws, and divorced science and law from morals.How did Norwood East contribute to the development of criminology and psychiatry? Garland (1988) argues convincingly for placing him in the conservative school. This movement eschewed Lombrosian notions of criminal anthropology, which were supported for a time by Maudsley and more consistently by Ellis, and heralded the emergence of British criminology from its origins in penal medicine. In what has been described as an attempt by the Downloaded by [University of Strathclyde] at 09:25

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Pioneers in forensic psychiatry. Maurice Hamblin Smith: The psychoanalytic panacea

Cited by 6 publications

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Psychoanalysis and probation practice: A brief additional perspective on Smith

Psychoanalysis and probation practice: A brief additional perspective on Smith

Psychiatric court clinics in the United States

Pioneers in forensic psychiatry. william norwood east: The acceptable face of psychiatry

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