James A.C. Brown

James A.C. Brown

James A.C. Brown (Edinburgh, 1911 - 1964) was a psychiatrist.

He took a degree in medicine at the Edinburgh University. He later traveled to Europe where he studied in many countries. During the First World War he was a specialist in psychiatry in the Middle East. As well as practicing in the army, he also gained experience in mental hospitals, prisons and selection boards.

Later he became interested in the normal individual's adjustment to society; he joined a large industrial concern after the war, where he worked for seven years.

Even though he learned in a school of thought which considered mental illness mainly as an individual and biological problem, he later regarded it basically as a social one. He took the view that the mental conflicts of the neurotic are in large part induced by the sick society in which he or she lives. Thus, he felt that the efficiency of industry cannot be weighed solely in terms of the amount goods it produces or its financial profits, but also considering at what cost of human health and happiness the goods were produced. He expressed this view in his work "The Social Psychology of Industry".

Works

*"The Social Psychology of Industry" (1954)
*"Techniques of Persuasion" (1963)
*"The Distressed Mind" (19??)
*"The Evolution of Society" (19??)


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