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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.
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, the maverick, the charismatic loner, the one who dared but was considered out of step and downright dangerous, was as described in his autobiography, ‘ A Quiet Mind’, a heavy smoker, suffered with tuberculosis and struggled with depression for most of his life.
Description. 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.
Scope and Content. 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.
William Walters Sargant (1907-1988) is credited, for better or for worse, with putting physicalist psychiatry on the map--at the expense of the dictum 'primum non nocere' (first do no harm). He was an outspoken supporter and practitioner of what he termed the 'practical rather than philosophical app …
