Bernard Hart (1879–1966) was a British physician and psychiatrist.
After secondary education at
University College School, Hampstead, and undergraduate education at
University College London
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, Bernard Hart graduated from
University College Hospital Medical School
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with the
Conjoint diploma of LRCP, MRCS in 1903, MB in 1904 , and MD in 1912. After qualifying in 1903, he held house appointments at the
East London Hospital for Children, and then studied psychiatry in Paris and Zurich. After working as an assistant physician at the Hertfordshire County Asylum, otherwise known as
Hill End Hospital
Hill End Hospital was a mental health facility in St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
History
The hospital, which was designed by George Thomas Hine using a Compact Arrow layout, opened as the Hertfordshire County Asylum in April 1899. Hill End ...
at
St Albans
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, and at
Long Grove Asylum in
Epsom
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, he was appointed in 1913 as the first physician for psychological medicine at University College Hospital.
At the beginning of WWI he joined the
RAMC
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with the rank of major and served as lecturer in mental disease at Moss Side Military Hospital,
Maghull
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Maghull had a population of 20,444 at the 2011 Cens ...
, where veterans with shell-shock were treated. He was also physician to the Special Neurological Hospital for Officers at 10
Palace Green
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Although initially not part of the site itself, Palace Green ...
,
Kensington
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, West London, as well as psychiatric consultant to other military hospitals in London.
After the end of WWI, he returned to University College Hospital and also joined the staff of the
National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy,
Queen Square, London
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Construction
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, and the staff of the
Maudsley Hospital
The Maudsley Hospital is a British psychiatric hospital in south London. The Maudsley is the largest mental health training institution in the UK. It is part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and works in partnership with the In ...
in south London.
Upon the
founding of ''The Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology'' in 1920, he was one of the nine members of the editorial committee, headed by
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (December 6, 1878 – May 12, 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. His research of hepatolenticular degeneration led the disease to be named after him as Wilson's disease. He was the father of British ...
.
Hart's 1910 paper ''The conception of the subconscious'' introduced the works of
Janet
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Names
* Janet (given name)
* Janet (French singer) (1939–2011)
Surname
* Charles Janet (1849–1932), French engineer, inventor and biologist, known for the Left Step periodic table
* Jules Janet (1861–1945), French psych ...
and Freud to English-speaking psychologists. In 1925 he was elected FRCP. In 1926 he delivered the
Goulstonian Lecture
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A beque ...
s on ''The Development of Psychopathology and its Place in Medicine''.
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In 1912 in the Strand area of Central London, Hart married Mabel E. Spark. He was a member of the ]Savile Club
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Changing premises
Initially calling itself th ...
. His outdoor recreations were mountaineering and skiing.
Selected publications
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References
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1879 births
1966 deaths
20th-century English medical doctors
English psychiatrists
Royal Army Medical Corps officers
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
People educated at University College School
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the UCL Medical School
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire