Eliot Slater

Eliot Slater

Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater MD (28 August 1904 – 15 May 1983), was a British psychiatrist who was a pioneer in the field of the genetics of mental disorders. He held senior posts at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, and the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. He was the author of some 150 scientific papers, and co-author of several books on psychiatric topics, including one that became for many years the leading textbook of psychiatry in English.

Read more about Eliot Slater:  Early Life and Medical Education, Germany 1934-5; The Second World War, Post-war Years, Outside Interests

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