Staff
The first medical superintendent was Dr Ferguson. In the later Victorian period, the staff were led by Dr John Manley, medical Superintendent for over thirty years. His assistant was Dr Pater, the brother of Walter Pater, an eminent Victorian man of letters and Oscar Wilde's tutor at Oxford.
In the 1960s, Knowle was the setting for Dr Ronald A. Sandison's psychotherapy practice. Sandison moved to Knowle from Powick Hospital in 1964, and remained at Knowle till 1975. Sandison (1916–2010) was the influential founder of the Wessex Psychotherapy Society and he was one of many British psychiatrists intrigued by the possibilities of psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenic illness. In 1965, Knowle became the hub of the Wessex Post-Graduate School of Psychiatry, headed by Drs Ian Skottowe, Angus Galbraith and Stephen MacKeith. With the establishment of the medical school at Southampton University in 1971, the university department of psychiatry originated at Knowle Hospital, and was led by Professor James Gibbons, Richard de Alarcon and Brian Barraclough. Barraclough's research on suicide gave an international reputation to Southampton psychiatry.
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Famous quotes containing the word staff:
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)
“In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)