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A very British kind of social psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg*
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Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. e-mail: leisenbe@warren.med.harvard.edu
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Social psychiatry, as represented in the work of Michael Shepherd, his pupils, and his colleagues at the Maudsley, all intellectual progeny of Sir Aubrey Lewis, is a very British kind of science. Lest this arouse your ire, implying an insult hurled at his betters in the mother country by a colonial parvenu, I hasten to add that “very British” refers to the best in your long and admirable scientific tradition in medicine: an unswerving commitment to empiricism, one which rarely moves much beyond its database; sober understatement, which makes no claim of possessing an exclusive path to salvation; sound methodology; and epistemological caution. It is aptly described by the adjective Apollonian, defined in my New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (NSOED) as “serene, rational, self-disciplined”.

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Review Articles Michael Shepherd Memorial Symposium
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 171 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 309 - 313
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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