F Alec Jenner : archive

Interim description pending cataloguing: F A Jenner's writings in various languages.

1930s - 1980s

Uncatalogued: 1 archive box

Donated in August 2017

FA JENNER, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry (Sheffield), Profesor Visitante (Conception, Chile) After qualifying in medicine he was recruited to psychiatry for his expertise in research biochemistry. In 1967 he was appointed Professor at Sheffield University and found himself managing the psychiatric services for the whole of the Trent Region - a population of six million. Meanwhile, he carried out the first double-blind UK trials on Librium and Valium, and became Honoury Director of the UK's Medical Research Council Units for Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders, and for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry. Professor Jenner was also instrumental in a number of institutional reforms. In particular, he initiated the Phoenix House Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Unit at Sheffield (the second biggest in the country) and, responding to the appalling provisions for the elderly, set-up a psychogeriatric service (now known as specialist service of old age) for the city. He was the first Western psychiatrist to draw attention to the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.

Asylum : the magazine for democratic psychiatry

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Donated by the family of F A Jenner.