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Following on from the @BBCRadio4 thread yesterday remembering the life and achievements of Dr Anthony Clare, I wanted to offer my own thread on notable British psychiatrists called Anthony. We& #39;ll start with Anthony Stevens. Born in 1933, Stevens is a prolific author and Jungian
scholar, an analyst and psychiatrist who studied for a time under John Bowlby (coincidentally, Bowlby& #39;s own father was called Anothony.) He holds degrees in medicine and psychology from Oxford and has lectured widely in London Zurich and the US on Jung and psychotherapy and is a
member of @rcpsych. Steven& #39;s most famous work is Archetype: A Natural History of The Self, praised by Dr Anthony Storr (who we will come to next) in the @TheTLS as & #39;one of the best introductions to (Jung& #39;s) thought and its practical applications.& #39; You can hear Stevens lecture on
& #39;The Archetypal Realities of Everyday Life& #39;, recorded in 1986, here https://jungchicago.org/blog/the-archetypal-realities-of-everyday-life/">https://jungchicago.org/blog/the-... He begins with the tantalising introduction & #39;archetypes are not esoteric things at all, they are with us every moment of our lives.& #39; Steven& #39;s book on dreaming,
& #39;Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming& #39;, is also endorsed by Anthony Storr. Our second Anthony, Anthony Storr (1920 – 2001) was a London born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author. A literary man, music lover and broadcaster, Storr briefly worked at the Maudsley hospital (1947-50),
under Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. He was a member of the (Jungian) Society for Analytical Psychology and maintained he would rather have been a musician if he had had the talent. Here he is on a wonderful edition of Desert Island discs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093x6d.">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... One of Storr& #39;s
later books, & #39;Solitude a Return to the Self& #39; is especially relevant now for anyone looking for a rich, compassionate and insightful lockdown read. Anthony Clare (our third Anthony) called & #39;Solitude& #39; a & #39;richly satisfying and stimulating work& #39; and it is one of my favourites.
Storr& #39;s collection of essays, & #39;Churchill& #39;s Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind& #39; published in 1989 was also endorsed by Anthony Clare as & #39;Hugely readable and thoughtful.& #39; Our third Anthony, Anthony Clare (1942 – 2007) was one of the UK& #39;s most famous psychiatrists.
Clare was a master interviewer and host of & #39;In The Psychiatrist& #39;s Chair& #39;, one of the all-time great radio series on @BBCRadio4. His guests included @stephenfry, RD Laing, Sir Peter Hall, Maya Angelou and Spike Milligan. Following his interview, Clare would later go on to
co-author a book about Depression with Milligan called, & #39;Depression and How to Survive It.& #39; All 29 episodes of this iconic radio series are available on @BBCSounds and, frankly, there are few better ways to pass a rainy afternoon than listening to these:
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& #39;Psychiatrist in the Chair - the official biography of Prof Anthony Clare& #39; by @muirishouston and Brendan Kelly (published by @MerrionPress) came out earlier this week. The dust jacket endorsement for this book is by Joanna Lumley, interviewed by Clare and nominated for a
Tony Award in 2011. It is from this Tony award nomination that we will awkwardly segue to our last (fourth) Anthony of this thread, cognitive neuropsychiatrist and Director of @UCLMentalHealth Anthony David ( @ProfTonyDavid.) His recent book, out earlier this year
& #39;Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist& #39;s Notes on Troubled Minds& #39; also has a rather good unabridged Audible version: https://oneworld-publications.com/into-the-abyss.html.">https://oneworld-publications.com/into-the-... If you know of any other notable British psychiatrists called Anthony, please feel free to add them here.
