Ian Brockington
Profeesor Emeritus
University of Birmingham
UK
Biography
Qualifying in 1961, I spent 4 years in Nigeria alternating with training posts at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. In 1969 I switched to psychiatry, training at the Institute of Psychiatry. From 1983-2001 I held the Chair of Psychiatry in the University of Birmingham, and was visiting professor in Chicago, St Louis, Nagoya and Kumamoto. My published work is on African heart diseases, the classification of the psychoses, the methodology of clinical research and the psychiatry of childbearing. I have published 4 authored monographs: Motherhood and Mental Health (1996), Eileithyia’s Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium (2006), Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process (2008) and What is Worth Knowing about ‘Puerperal Psychosis’ (2014) .
Research Interest
Psychiatry