Henry Maudsley

Henry Maudsley was born in 1835 on an isolated farm near Giggleswick, Yorkshire, and was educated at Giggleswick School. His mother died when he was young, and an aunt cared for him. He studied medicine at University College London, winning many gold medals, and graduated in 1857. He meant to become a surgeon, but after working for some months at the West Riding Asylum in Wakefield he turned to the treatment of mental illness, and at twenty-three he became superintendent of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum. He later moved to London, married the daughter of the psychiatrist John Conolly, and became a professor of medical jurisprudence at University College and an editor of the Journal of Mental Science. In books such as The Physiology and Pathology of Mind and Body and Mind (1870), he argued that mental disorders arise from the body and brain. In 1907 he gave money to the London County Council to found a hospital for the early treatment of mental illness and for research; the Maudsley Hospital opened after the First World War. He died in 1918.

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