Hugh Crichton-Miller

{{Short description|Scottish psychiatrist}}

{{Short description|Scottish psychiatrist}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}

'''Hugh Crichton-Miller''' (born in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]], 5 February 1877, died 1 January 1959 in [[London]]) was a Scottish [[physician]] and [[psychiatrist]]. He founded the Bowden House nursing home for nervous diseases at [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station|Harrow-on-the-Hill]] in 1912 and the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in [[London]] in 1920.{{cite web|title=Our history|url=http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ourhistory|work=The Tavistock and Portman|accessdate=23 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530175845/http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ourhistory|archivedate=30 May 2012}}

'''Hugh Crichton-Miller''' ([[Genoa]], 5 February 1877 – 1 January 1959 in [[London]]) was a Scottish [[physician]] and [[psychiatrist]]. He founded the Bowden House nursing home for nervous diseases at [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station|Harrow-on-the-Hill]] in 1912 and the [[Tavistock Clinic]] in [[London]] in 1920.{{cite web|title=Our history|url=http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ourhistory|work=The Tavistock and Portman|accessdate=23 May 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530175845/http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ourhistory|archivedate=30 May 2012}}

==Biography==

The son of a Presbyterian minister to the Scottish church in Genoa and his Scots wife, he was sent at twelve to attend [[Fettes College]] in [[Edinburgh]]. He followed an arts programme as well as Medicine at [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]].Crichton-Miller was president of the student union. A picture from Edinburgh archives shows him in 1899 with other members of the committee: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/edinburghuniversityarchives/2015/05/06/edinburgh-university-union-committee-1899/ Retrieved 16 November 2016 In 1902 he obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on [[Hypnosis|hypnotism]].{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Hugh Crichton|date=1902|title=Treatment by hypnotism and post-hypnotic suggestion|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/20019|language=en}} He continued his studies at [[University of Pavia|Pavia University]]. During [[World War I]], Crichton-Miller joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and served in the rank of lieutenant colonel. His concern for sufferers of [[Shell shock]], led after the war to his founding a charitable clinic in [[Tavistock Square]] to treat nervous complaints. He remained its honorary medical director until 1934, followed by a further seven years as its honorary senior physician. By 1939 he was working alongside 90 honorary medical colleagues. ('Honorary' meant that they were working ''[[Pro bono]]''.)

The son of a [[Presbyterian minister]] to the Scottish church in Genoa and his Scots wife, he was sent at twelve to attend [[Fettes College]] in [[Edinburgh]]. He followed an arts programme as well as Medicine at [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]].Crichton-Miller was president of the student union. A picture from Edinburgh archives shows him in 1899 with other members of the committee: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/edinburghuniversityarchives/2015/05/06/edinburgh-university-union-committee-1899/ Retrieved 16 November 2016 In 1902 he obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on [[Hypnosis|hypnotism]].{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Hugh Crichton|date=1902|title=Treatment by hypnotism and post-hypnotic suggestion|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/20019|language=en}} He continued his studies at [[University of Pavia|Pavia University]]. During [[World War I]], Crichton-Miller joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and served in the rank of lieutenant colonel. His concern for sufferers of [[Shell shock]], led after the war to his founding a charitable clinic in [[Tavistock Square]] to treat nervous complaints. He remained its honorary medical director until 1934, followed by a further seven years as its honorary senior physician. By 1939 he was working alongside 90 honorary medical colleagues. ('Honorary' meant that they were working ''[[Pro bono]]''.)

His first book was on hypnotism and disease and came out in 1912. He became a popular lecturer and writer on the 'New Psychology', which was broadly based on the work of the Swiss psychiatrist, [[Carl Gustav Jung]]. A further three books appeared after the war forming a trilogy: 'The New Psychology and the Teacher' (1921), 'The New Psychology and the Parent' (1922), followed by 'The New Psychology and the Preacher' (1924).{{cite book|author=Crichton-Miller, Hugh|title=The New Psychology and the Parent|publisher=Jarrolds|date=1922|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028925894|accessdate=16 November 2016}} He became chairman of the medical section of the [[British Psychological Society]] and in 1938 President of the Psychiatry section of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]] and president of the [[International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy]], and vice-president of the [[C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich]].'''In German''' Lockot, Regine. ''Erinnern und Durcharbeiten. Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie im Nationalsozialismus''. Fischer, Frankfurt 1985, pp. 104ff. The [[British Medical Association]] appointed him to the [[Charles Hastings (English physician)|Sir Charles Hastings]] lectureship. During the first three years of [[World War II]] he was officer-in-charge of the Emergency Medical Psychiatry Service at [[Watford]] hospital.

His first book was on hypnotism and disease and came out in 1912. He became a popular lecturer and writer on the 'New Psychology', which was broadly based on the work of the Swiss psychiatrist, [[Carl Gustav Jung]]. A further three books appeared after the war forming a trilogy: 'The New Psychology and the Teacher' (1921), 'The New Psychology and the Parent' (1922), followed by 'The New Psychology and the Preacher' (1924).{{cite book|author=Crichton-Miller, Hugh|title=The New Psychology and the Parent|publisher=Jarrolds|date=1922|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028925894|accessdate=16 November 2016}} He became chairman of the medical section of the [[British Psychological Society]] and in 1938 President of the Psychiatry section of the [[Royal Society of Medicine]] and president of the [[International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy]], and vice-president of the [[C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich]].'''In German''' Lockot, Regine. ''Erinnern und Durcharbeiten. Zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie im Nationalsozialismus''. Fischer, Frankfurt 1985, pp. 104ff. The [[British Medical Association]] appointed him to the [[Charles Hastings (English physician)|Sir Charles Hastings]] lectureship. During the first three years of [[World War II]] he was officer-in-charge of the Emergency Medical Psychiatry Service at [[Watford]] hospital.