James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James (Jim) Watson, who died after a stroke on 3 August 2016 aged 80, was among a small band of British psychiatrists who trained in the 1960s and 70s to take psychiatry out of the asylums and establish robust services in general hospital and community settings. They were also responsible for developing a wide range of specialist mental health services. Jim was deeply committed to improving the...

Dr Henry Rollin MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon), FRCP

Henry Rollin, who died recently at the age of 102, was a medical polymath from a vanished age when psychiatrists had the time and opportunity to develop their skills by way of a wider variety of experience than is possible today. From 1948 until 1975, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Horton Hospital, Epsom, one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Although he had himself been invo...

Paul Haydon Rogers FRCP FRCPsych

Anthony Carl (Tony) Kaeser FRCP, FRCPsych

Tony Kaeser, who recently died aged 84, was one of the pioneer consultant psychiatrists who from the 1960s onwards developed departments of psychological medicine in district general hospitals at the time when long-stay mental asylums were being phased out. In the years following his appointment in 1969 as a general adult psychiatrist to Runwell Hospital, he was involved in innumerable planning...

Patrick Watson-Williams