David Henderson (psychiatrist)
David Kennedy Henderson
Biography
He was born on 24 April 1884 in Dumfries, Scotland. In 1913 he was awarded an MD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis "Cerebral syphilis a clinical analysis of twenty-six cases, seven with autopsy".[1]
He co-published with R.D. Gillespie A Textbook of Psychiatry (first edition 1927), which became internationally influential for several decades. A series of lectures he gave in New York, America, were published as Psychopathic states in 1939, and ended up contributing to a narrowing of the public understanding of psychopathy as violently antisocial, though Henderson had described various different types many of which were not violent or criminal.[2][3] The Henderson Hospital, a specialist national unit in London set up to manage and treat the now contested diagnosis of 'psychopathic' personality disorder, was named after him.[4][5]
He was physician-superintendent in charge at the Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow from 1921 to 1932. In 1932 he replaced the late Dr George Matthew Robertson as Physician Superintendent of the Edinburgh Royal Hospital, being replaced in turn in 1955 by Dr Thomas Arthur Munro.[6]
His textbook on psychiatry has been described as the key to the Glasgow approach to mental illness, and Henderson in turn credited the approach of the influential Adolf Meyer whom he had worked with in America. Henderson also studied for some months in Germany with a key founder of modern psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin, whom he admired but found lacking in sensitivity to patients.
In 1934 he was elected a member of the
He died on 20 April 1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Legacy
Henderson's student
References
- ^ Henderson, David Kennedy (1913). "Cerebral syphilis: a clinical analysis of twenty-six cases, seven with autopsy".
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(help) - ^ Psychopathic states. Henderson, D. K. New York, NY, US: W W Norton & Co. (1939). 178 pp.
- ^ Hildebrand, M 2004 The Construct of Psychopathy
- ^ Henderson Hospital 1947-2008
- ^ Perspectives on Henderson Hospital. Warren, F. and Dolan, B. Sutton, UK: Henderson Hospital (2001). 188 pp.
- ^ "Physician Superintendents of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital collection summary". Lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ Guthrie, Douglas. The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh.
- ^ Vignette: a doyen of ‘psychological medicine’ Sir David Henderson Douglas Haldane, 2006.
- ^ "Sir David K. Henderson". Art UK. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ Beveridge, A. (2011) Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writing and Work of R. D. Laing, 1927-1960 Oxford University Press
- ^ DAVID KENNEDY HENDERSON (1884-1965) D. EWEN CAMERON Am J Psychiatry 1965;122:467-469.
- ^ "On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the closure of Henderson Hospital Democratic Therapeutic Community". 7 May 2018.