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- William Walters Sargant (24 April 1907 – 27 August 1988) was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy.
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William Walters Sargant (24 April 1907 – 27 August 1988) was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy.
Dr William Sargant was the most important figure in post-war psychiatry. He was a rebel with a cause. He had the build of a rugby forward, narrowly missed a blue at Cambridge, but went on to play for the Barbarians and represented Middlesex and St Mary’s Hospital.
William Walters Sargant was born in 1907 into a ‘larger than life’ Methodist family in North London. Five of his uncles were Methodist preachers, one brother was a bishop; another, Thomas Sargant, a human rights campaigner.
Feb 1, 2009 · Dr William Walters Sargant stands out as a firm champion of physical treatments in 20th century British psychiatry. Some saw his ultra-physical approach as evidence of the progress that the speciality of psychiatry had made in moving on from its unscientific beginnings in the 19th century.
- John A S Beard
- 2009
Sargant was an outspoken supporter and practitioner of what he termed the "practical rather than philosophical approaches" to the treatment of mental illness, pioneering and publicising various physical treatments and vociferously opposing the use of psychoanalytic techniques.
Sargant was an outspoken supporter and practitioner of what he termed the 'practical rather than philosophical approaches' to the treatment of mental illness, pioneering and publicising various physical treatments and vociferously opposing the use of psychoanalytic techniques.
Description. Absorbing two part documentary feature on the life, work and ideas of the late Dr. William Sargant (1907-1987), formerly of the Maudsley and St Thomas' Hospitals and lifelong advocate of a radical "physicalist" approach not only to the interpretation and treatment of mental illness, but also of a whole variety of other abnormal ...
