Forbes Benignus Winslow
1810–74
Physician and specialist in insanity. MD, Aberdeen, 1849. Opened two private lunatic asylums in Hammersmith in 1847 and carried on a private psychiatric practice outside the asylum. Founded the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology in 1848. Published prolifically on psychiatric subjects. A controversial expert witness in teh courts, being one of the most extreme advocates of the non-responsibility of the insane.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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