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Maurice Bevan-Brown
Charles Maurice Bevan-Brown (29 July 1886 – 27 February 1967) was a New Zealand psychiatrist and psychotherapist who practised in Christchurch from the 1940s to the 1960s. He established a clinic for medical psychology and founded the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists.Obituary, Dr. C. M. Bevan-Brown, ''The Press'', Christchurch, February 28, 1967 He was influential in the formation and ethos of Parents' Centres New Zealand. Early life He was the eldest son of Charles Edmund Bevan-Brown ("Balbus"), headmaster for 37 years of Christchurch Boys High School. He graduated from University of Canterbury, Canterbury College of the University of New Zealand in 1908 and took honours in the National Science Tripos at Cambridge, England, in 1912. Returning to New Zealand he taught at Wanganui Collegiate, until 1915, when he enlisted as a sergeant and was posted with the medical corps to Egypt, landing at Suez on July 27. He was admitted to hospital in Cairo with influenza, then para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |