Ivor Browne, the Psychiatrist: Music and Madness

by Ivor Browne

Overview

Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin and retired as Chief Psychiatrist of the then Eastern Health Board in 1994. This book charts the growth of one man's journey in relation to psychiatry and human development. Ivor Browne has been a central and controversial figure in Irish life up until the mid-nineties when he retired

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908634337
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ivor Browne was Professor of Psychiatry at University College, Dublin and Chief Psychiatrist of the Eastern Health Board. He has practiced the Sahag Marg system of meditation since 1978. Browne has published many articles as: An Experiment with a Psychiatric Night Hospital (1960); Psychiatry in Ireland (1963); The Dilemma of the Human Family: a cycle of growth and decline (1966); Thomas Murphy: The Madness of Genius(1987), How does Psychotherapy Work? (1989), Psychological Trauma, or Unexperienced Experience (1990).

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Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin and retired as Chief Psychiatrist of the then Eastern Health Board in 1994. This book charts the growth of one man's journey in relation to psychiatry and human development. Ivor Browne has been a central and controversial figure in Irish life up until the mid-nineties when he retired

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     viii
Preface     ix
Introduction   Colm Toibin     1
Shapings 1929-1949
The Beginning     11
Rathronan     18
The Field     21
Music and Medicine 1949-1962
The Trumpet     25
Medical School     33
Becoming a Doctor     48
Oxford     54
St John of God's     60
London     69
USA: Massachusetts General     77
Harvard     85
Dublin 1962-1963
St Brendan's     99
St Loman's     105
Connemara     119
The Ballyfermot Psychiatric Clinic     122
Chief Psychiatrist 1965-1985
Chief Psychiatrist     130
The Chair of Psychiatry     135
Psychiatric Administration     139
The Brendan Project     151
Leros     156
Irish Foundation for Human Development 1968-1979
Starting Up     161
The Tavistock Conferences     179
Derry     189
The Irish Conferences     196
The Derry Youth and Community Workshop     207
The Demise of the Irish Foundation     220
A NewApproach 1979-1994
Breaking the Mould     228
Definition of a Living System     240
Pseudo-Living Systems     247
Therapeutic Practice     255
Phyllis Hamilton     277
The Frozen Present     284
Rebels and Reappraisals     310
Spirituality and the Growth of Love 1994-
India     329
The Heart     335
Afterword     341
Autopoiesis     343
Notes     345
Bibliography     349
Index     355