Documents relating to Alexis Brook's work in psychosomatic ophthalmology.
Brook | AlexisThe correspondents are Prof. A J Bron of the Nuffield Laboratory of Opthalmology, University of Oxford; G L Cantrell of Exeter, Devon; John K G Dart of Moorfields Eye Hospital; Andrew Elder; Tom Freeman; Michael J Gilkes (note accompanying a copy of Gilkes' paper 'Psychosomatic Theory and the Eye'); R P J Jackson of the British Museum; Dr J W Paulley of Christchurch Park Hospital, Ipswich.
The documents also include a programme from a meeting to commemorate the life and work of Alexander Thomson Macbeth Wilson.
The documents comprise 2 annotated copies of the Society's constitution; leaflet for a symposium entitled 'Mind's Eye III' arranged in 2001 by the Society in conjunction with the British Psycho-Analytical Society.
The documents comprise Alexis Brook's project reports; related correspondence with members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Lecture notes kept together in a folder by Alexis Brook. These include notes for a lecture to the Balint Society, 1992; annotated typed draft of a lecture given to the West Kent Chirurgical Society.
They also include typescript drafts of a paper presented to the Applied Section of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, February 1994; typed paper presented at a Scientific Meeting entitled 'The Mind's Eye. Applyling psycho-analytic understanding to eye disorders: a multi-disciplinary approach.', May 1998.
Note: Some of these papers are only available to members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Typescript and manuscript notes kept together in a file by Brook. Notes including patient names are closed to research.
These include papers presented to the Applied Section of the British Psycho-Analytical Society; the Balint Society; and to a conference on 'The Mind's Eye'.
They also include a paper entitled 'Bowel distress and emotional conflict' ('Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine', January 1991; joint paper with Peter Fenton entitled 'Psychological Aspects of Disorders of the Eye', ('Psychiatric Bulletin', 1994); joint paper with Sotiris Zalidis entitled 'Blepharitis and Grieving', ('The Psychotherapy Review', 1999); report on the conference on 'Psychosomatic Opthalmology' held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, November 2000; published letter relating to 'Blepharitis', ('British Journal of General Practice', January 1998).
Note: Some of these papers are open only to members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
The documents comprise C E Quinn, 'The soul and the pneuma in the function of the nervous system after Galen', ('Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<I/>, July 1994); Aubrey Lewis, 'The Twenty-Firth Maudsley Lecture - Henry Maudsley: His Work and Influence', ('Journal of Menal Science<I/>, April 1951); Peter Fenton, 'Case reports on psychosomatic eye disorders', ('Documenta Opthalmalogica', 1992); J D Rolleston, 'Opthalmic Folk-Lore', ('The British Journal of Opthalmology', November 1942.
This series comprises reports, notes, correspondence and papers relating to Alexis Brook's work on a project to study the psychological aspects of disorders of the eye. Brook was invited to undertake this project in 1991 by the Council of the British Psychoanalytical Society. This request was based on their knowledge of his similar work on disorders of the gut. It was funded by the Inman Trust which had been established by a bequest from Dr Olive Inman to further her late husband William S Inman's pioneering work in this field.
Brook worked first at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and then at a private practice in Hackney.