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![Figure][1] John Pippard was a consultant psychiatrist at Claybury Hospital, Essex. Born on 20 May 1919, he died from pneumonia after a fall at home on 21 December 2012. John was the elder son of Olive and A.J.S. (Sutton) Pippard FRS who was Professor of Civil Engineering at Imperial

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  • John was the elder son of Olive and A.J.S. (Sutton) Pippard FRS who was Professor of Civil Engineering at Imperial College London. He trained to be a doctor at Cambridge and the London Hospital, qualifying in 1942 and gaining MRCP in the same year

  • John trained initially to become a physician at the London Hospital but changed to psychiatry, training at the London, Maudsley and St George’s hospitals

  • He became a consultant psychiatrist at Claybury Hospital in 1955, where, encouraged by the Medical Superintendent Stuart Harris, he and Dennis Martin and later Elisabeth Shoenberg and Derek Kelsey were to transform a well-run traditional mental hospital into a pioneering therapeutic community. This was the first time such an experiment involving a large mental hospital had been made in the UK. This ‘Adventure in Psychiatry’ led to a revolution in the management of acutely ill patients, who became active participants in their own treatment

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John was the elder son of Olive and A.J.S. (Sutton) Pippard FRS who was Professor of Civil Engineering at Imperial College London. Consultant psychiatrist at Claybury Hospital, fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists John Pippard was a consultant psychiatrist at Claybury Hospital, Essex.

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