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dumfries , scotland 31 january 1938 -lrb- aged 97 -rrb- edinburgh , scotland george robert chambers , william a.f. browne , duchenne de boulogne combe , hugh welch diamond , charles darwin , thomas laycock , , paul broca , henry maudsley thomas carlyle , andrew combe , psychiatry , public health , medical psychology royal , court of chancery , medico-psychological association , royal institution medical , royal society society , west riding pauper lunatic asylum 29 november 1840 functional biological psychiatry , scottish medical history , photography , memoirist specialization -lrb- brain -rrb- , cerebral asymmetry , james crichton-browne . jpg james crichton-browne
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james crichton-browne

sir james crichton-browne md frs frse -lrb- 29 november 1840 -- 31 january 1938 -rrb- was a leading british psychiatrist , neurologist and medical psychologist .
he is known for studies on the relationship of mental illness to brain injury and for the development of public health policies in relation to mental health .
crichton-browne 's father was the asylum reformer dr william a.f. browne , a prominent member of the edinburgh phrenological society .
crichton-browne edited the highly influential `` west riding lunatic asylum medical reports '' -lrb- six volumes , 1871 -- 76 -rrb- .
he was one of charles darwin 's major collaborators -- on `` the expression of the emotions in man and animals '' -lrb- 1872 -rrb- -- and , like duchenne de boulogne and hugh welch diamond , was a pioneer of neuropsychiatric photography .
he based himself at the west riding lunatic asylum in wakefield from 1866 to 1875 , and there he taught psychiatry to students from the nearby leeds school of medicine .
crichton-browne served as lord chancellor 's visitor from 1875 till 1922 .
throughout his career , crichton-browne emphasised the asymmetrical character of the human brain and behaviour ; and also , like emil kraepelin and alois alzheimer , made some remarkable predictions about the neurological changes associated with severe psychiatric disorder .
in 1920 , crichton-browne delivered the first maudsley lecture to the medico-psychological association in the course of which he outlined his recollections of henry maudsley ; and in the last fifteen years of his life , he published seven volumes of reminiscences .
in 2015 , unesco listed crichton-browne 's clinical papers and photographs -lrb- about 5000 items in all -rrb- as items of historic cultural importance .
