Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T22:02:34.280Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Evolution of the British Journal of Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Henry R. Rollin
Henry R. Rollin*
Affiliation:
Horton Hospital, Surrey
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Whereas the history of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been reasonably well documented, that of its journal, under its various titles, has received little attention. What follows is an attempt to redress the balance, but this could not have come about if my attention had not been drawn to the existence in the College library of the original, handwritten minutes dating from 1841 of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane and the succeeding body, the Medico-Psychological Association. This historic treasure, to steal a line from one of its pages, written in immaculate handwriting and expressed in elegant Victorian Gothic prose, “contained an unworked mine of golden wealth”.

Type
Papers
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 1 , July 1991 , pp. 33 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Rollin, H. R. (1988) In the beginning. British Journal of Psychiatry, 153, 431–433.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.