Item IOP/PP3/10/8 - DVD, 2005, Sir Aubrey Lewis interviews, conducted by Prof Michael Shepherd and Dr D[avid] L[ewis] Davies, 1966, 2 copies

DVD, Sir Aubrey Lewis interviews, conducted by Prof Michael Shepherd, Institute of Psychiatry, and Dr D[avid] L[ewis] Davies, Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, 1966, 2 copies. Interview with Prof Michael Shepherd includes details of how Aubrey Lewis became interested in psychology at the University of Adelaide; his anthropological studies of Indigenous Australian peoples; his subsequent move into psychiatry; his Rockefeller Foundation grant and training in Boston, USA, under Adolf Mayer, Baltimore, USA, and in Germany; the differences in psychiatry between the USA and Europe; the Maudsley Hospital in the 1930 and conflict between Edward Mapother and the Board of Control relating to the way in which the hospital was managed; the arrival of German refugee psychiatrists to the Maudsley Hospital in the 1930s; the development of teaching of psychiatry and the staffing at the Maudsley Hospital and the impact of clinical duties on research. Interview with Dr D L Davies includes details of how the findings of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Medical Schools, 1942-1943 (Goodenough Committee) and the development of the NHS impacted on the Maudsley Hospital, psychiatric health provision and teaching; the move to Mill Hill during World War Two; the linking of the Maudsley Hospital and Bethlem Hospital in 1948; the importance of teaching and research at the Maudsley Hospital; the changes in the way the Maudsley Hospital was managed during his time there; the reputation of the Maudsley Hospital as internationally significant in the field of psychiatric research; the Maudsley Hospital approach of psychiatric research; Aubrey Lewis's thoughts on the teaching and development of the social sciences; the benefits of relationships between the Maudsley Hospital, Guy's Hospital and King's College Hospital; Aubrey Lewis's thoughts on the possible negative effects of narrow specialisation in psychiatry. Very poor sound and visual quality. 55 mins. Also VHS copy of film