John Rawlings Rees
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John Rawlings Rees CBE, MD, FRCP |
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| Born |
25 June 1890 Leicester, England |
| Died | 11 April 1969 (aged 78) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation |
Director of the President of the World Federation for Mental Health |
| Notable work |
Health of the Mind The Shaping of Psychiatry by War Modern Practice in Psychological Medicine |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Isobel Hemingway (m. 1920) |
John Rawlings Rees CBE MD RAMC FRCP (also known as 'Jack' or 'J.R.') (25 June 1890 – 11 April 1969) was a British civilian and military psychiatrist.
Director of the
Health of the Mind
The Shaping of Psychiatry by War
Born in Leicester to the Methodist minister Reverend Montgomery Rees and his wife Catharine Millar, John Rawlings Rees experienced frequent relocations during his early life as his father moved from manse to manse. After a period spent at Leeds, most of Rees education took place at Bradford Grammar School. He then attended King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied Medicine and Natural Science and played water polo.
Following his degree, Rees worked at the Victoria Park Chest Hospital, studying tuberculosis. Rees was finishing his medical education at the London Hospital when World War I began. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1914, and later became a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he received the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne de Belge for his work with Belgian civilians. After being invalided back to London for a time, Rees was placed in charge of a motor ambulance unit in Mesopotamia until 1919, when he demobilised with the rank of Captain.
Hugh Crichton-Miller invited Rees to work with him at a private psychiatric nursing home, Bowden House, Harrow on the Hill. Rees married Mary Isobel Hemingway (10 September 1887 – 4 October 1954), the resident medical officer at Bowden House, in 1921. Their marriage occurred shortly after Rees and Crichton-Miller created the , a voluntary hospital which opened in 1920. Mary also joined the staff of the Tavistock Clinic. The clinic specialised in the new 'dynamic psychologies' of Sigmund Freud and his followers, and in particular the Object relations theory of Ronald Fairbairn and others. As well as educating others at the clinic, Rees took the DPH in 1920 and MRCP in 1936. Rees was one of the key figures at the original and became its medical director from 1933. He began to make plans to establish an Institute of Medical Psychology, with beds and more opportunities to train people in psychiatric methods, and bought a site in Bloomsbury to build it, but his plans were halted by the outbreak of World War II.
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