| Description Of Item | Myre Sim was a renowned and published psychiatrist. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1970. The three digital recordings are not divided according to the four sides of the tapes.
Side 1 - early education in Edinburgh and growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family; student life at University of Edinburgh; usefulness of memory training developed through anatomy; development of interest in psychiatry; teaching of D K Henderson; reasons of concentration of schizophrenia in the Jewish community; impact of compensation on war neuroses; syllabus of Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine; staff at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen's Square; limitations of analysis; treatments available for mental illness in 1940 including insulin treatment; hypnosis; danger of certain drugs; Alfred Myer neuropathologist at West Park Hospital; Lancelot Hogben.
Side 2 - army service with artillery regiments in Cairo and in psychiatry in Tunisia; did his thesis on the influence of personnel selection on the nature of psychiatric breakdown; analysis of data; treating of deserters and malingerers; prisoners of war who sided with the Germans (13 minutes); treating of a patient who had been a prisoner of war of the Russians and General Ismay's intervention; post-war employment in Birmingham and fellowship child psychiatry; Professor Sir Melville Arnott; history of Midland Nerve Hospital (27 minutes); management of asylums (33 minutes); geriatric service (37 minutes); rehabilitation of prisoners of war and group therapy (39 minutes); teaching medical students and importance of case histories (41 minutes)
Side 3/4 - involvement in hospital and professional committee work in Birmingham 1950-1975; regret over time taken in political work including General Medical Council; pride in his students (14 minutes); clinical trials of drugs and drug misuse (17 minutes); complementary professions including nursing and psychology (21 minutes); Clifford Tetlow including his thesis on puerperal psychosis (27 minutes); membership of Society of Clinical Psychiatrists (30 minutes); opinion on homosexuality and post-traumatic stress disorder (35 minutes) |