John Conolly

John Conolly ( born May 27, 1794 in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, † March 5, 1866 in Hanwell ) was a British psychiatrist and co-founder of the forerunner of the British Medical Association, a professional organization of British doctors.

Conolly came from an Irish family and received his PhD in 1821 in Edinburgh as a doctor of medicine ( MD). Subsequently, he was in Lewes, Chichester and Stratford- upon- Avon as a doctor working ( in modern parlance as a practicing doctor). In 1828 he became a professor at University College London, which he held until 1831. In 1830 he published his work " Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity " and later moved to Warwick.

Together with Charles Hastings (1794-1866) and John Forbes (1787-1861) founded Conolly 1832 a medical society that improving medizinis chen catering cottages set itself the goal. From this society later, the British Medical Association showed.

In 1839 he was resident physician in the " Middlesex County Asylum", a " lunatic asylum " in Hanwell. There he put the " non -restraint system" (see also the history of psychiatry ), which waives the application of physical force. Its location in Hanwell he gave in 1843 to again, but has remained committed to the socio-psychiatric movement a.

He published in 1856 his work " Treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints ", which was initially strongly attacked, but generally accepted later. On Conolly efforts nationwide spread of the Non -restraint principle is recycled in the UK.

Bibliography

• The Indications of Insanity with an introduction by Richard Hunter and Ida MacAlpine. Psychiatric Monograph Series 4 ( 1830)
• Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums (1847 )
• The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints (1856 )
• Essay on Hamlet ( 1863)