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- Asher could not come to terms with the situation and stopped working. Tragically, in 1969 he took his life, confirming the opinion of some that he had a manic-depressive disorder although the evidence for this is questionable.
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Jul 5, 2008 · Richard Asher was unable to come to terms with that. The hospital perhaps did not adequately realise the nature of his problems, being preoccupied with the problems of the manic depressive illness of its medical director and senior physician, Horace Joules, but to describe this as a point of principle is a travesty, and it is sad that you have ...
- Martin W McNicol
- 2008
This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness.
Jul 1, 2008 · Richard Asher’s resignation: not entirely honourable. That Richard Asher had wit and clinical wisdom is not in dispute, but perhaps less well recognised is his undoubtedly cyclothymic temperament, and that had as much to do with his resignation as principle. 1 Pique about beds is perhaps a more ….
In 1951, Richard Asher was the first to describe a pattern of self-harm, wherein individuals fabricated histories, signs, and symptoms of illness. Remembering Baron Munchausen, Asher named this condition Munchausen's Syndrome in his article in The Lancet in February 1951, [ 19 ] quoted in his obituary in the British Medical Journal :
Always a general physician, he was particularly interested in haematology, endocrinology and the organic causes of mental illness – all subjects that were in their infancy and he made notable contributions to them.
Abstract. This essay aims to stimulate a reawakening of interest in the writings of the physician Richard Asher (1912-1969), who is now best known for coining the term "Munchausen's syndrome." Asher's essays are as relevant now as when first published.
