Ann Dally (29 March 1926, in

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– 24 March 2007, in

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) was an

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and

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. Born Ann Gwendolen Mullins, she was the eldest child of the lawyer Claud William Mullins (1887–1968) and his wife Elizabeth Gwendolen Brandt (1904–1997). Dally studied at

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. She married Dr. Peter Dally in 1950. Dally was the first woman to study medicine at

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in 1953 and became a Harley Street Psychiatrist. She undertook controversial treatment of heroin addicts and was put on trial by the

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and the

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. She wrote about her experience in ''A Doctor's Story'' (1990).

Bibliography

* ''An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Medicine'' (1966) * ''Cicely: The Story of a Doctor'' (1968) * ''The Birth of a Child: A Doctor's-eye-view Documentary of a Child Being Born'' (1969) * ''Mothers: Their Power and Influence'' (1976) * ''The Morbid Streak: Destructive Aspects of the Personality'' (1978) * ''Why Women Fail: Achievement and Choice for Modern Women'' (1979) * ''Inventing Motherhood: The Consequences of an Ideal'' (1982) * ''A Doctor's Story'' (1990) * ''Women Under the Knife - A history of surgery'' (1992) Hutchinson Radius, London * ''The Trouble with Doctors: Fashions, Motives and Mistakes'' (2003)

References

External links

Dr Ann Dally, Reprint from ''The Guardian'' 30 March 2007

1926 births 2007 deaths English psychiatrists English women writers 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Alumni of King's College London British women psychiatrists {{england-writer-stub