Derek Russell Davis

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(20 April 1914 – 3 February 1993) was a British psychiatrist who served as the Norah Cooke-Hurle Professor of Mental Health at Bristol University from 1962 to 1979.

Career

Davis attended the Stowe School before obtaining a medical degree at the School of Clinical Medicine of the

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. He completed his residency at

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, and returned to Cambridge to work at the university hospital. Davis was named reader of clinical psychology in 1950, and began teaching medical psychology in 1958, when he was appointed as director of the Medical Psychology Laboratory. He left for Bristol University in 1962 and taught there until 1979, as the Norah Cooke-Hurle Professor of Mental Health. Davis wrote for the ''British Journal of Medical Psychology'' and was the editor of the ''

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''.

References

1914 births 1993 deaths British psychiatrists Fellows of the British Psychological Society Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists People educated at Stowe School Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Bristol 20th-century British psychologists {{UK-psychologist-stub