ABSTRACT
Cuthbert Arthur Harry Watt’s Christian faith influenced his next decision to move to South Africa in 1938 where he began working at St. Mary’s Hospital. Upon demobilisation in 1946, Watts settled into a country practice at Ibstock in Leicestershire. He spent a year working at the centre where he was able to observe a large range of psychiatric illnesses and was able to practise psychotherapy. He was a family doctor and he never wanted to become a full-time psychiatrist but instead wanted to use his experiences in the field and apply it to general practice once the war was over. Watts not only helped spread mental health knowledge into general practice but in 1952, he became one of the founder members of the College. He was appointed Order of the British Empire in 1969. He was awarded the James Mackenzie Award in 1971 and, in 1993, the George Abercrombie Award for his contribution to the literature of general practice.
