ABSTRACT
Eugen Bleuler does refer to T. S. Clouston, the fulsome proposer at Henry Maudsley’s election, who was knighted in 1912, an honour never accorded to Maudsley. The central aspect of Maudsley’s relationship with the Medico-Psychological Association probably lay in his role as editor of the Journal of Mental Science. Maudsley was a writer, a prolix and weighty wordsmith; his early articles attracted the attention of Conolly; his reputation was founded on his books; his love of Goethe and Shakespeare and philosophy informed all his opinions. Certainly the business of editorship was in keeping with Maudsley’s perceptions of medical psychology, stressing as he did throughout his life the need for a powerful philosophical basis to clinical practice. The reviewer went on to quote approvingly Maudsley’s lines about ‘subtle physico-chemical sympathies and synergies of motions and rhythms’ and his insistence that the ‘introspective ego, be it ever so acute, expert and free, is tied down by material bonds’.
