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Douglas Bennett

In conversation with Greg Wilkinson

What prompted your interest in psychiatry? I went to London for interviews at University College Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where I was accepted. We did the pre-clinical work at Charterhouse Square and then moved over to the main hospital where I suppose we had about a year or a little more before World War II broke out. During that year Jung was invited to give two lectures by E.B. Strauss who had been appointed as psychiatrist a couple of years before the war. This stimulated my interested in psychiatry. I remember Strauss remarking that "psychiatry was the other half of medicine".

Tell me about your early career. I qualified at age 22 and did a short house job at the old London Fever Hospital in Islington. After a stint there I got a house surgeon's job at Bart's, about which I remember little. Then I did another six months at The Royal Northern.