James A. C. Brown
Scottish psychiatrist (1911–1964)
James Alexander Campbell Brown (1911–1965) was a psychiatrist who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Career
Brown took a degree in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Later, he traveled to mainland Europe where he studied in many countries.
During the Second World War, Brown was a specialist in psychiatry in the Middle East. He practiced psychiatry in the army, but also gained experience in mental hospitals, prisons and selection boards. Later, he became interested in the normal individual's adjustment to society. Brown joined a large industrial concern after the war, where he worked for seven years.
Even though Brown was educated 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, Brown argued that the efficiency of industry cannot be weighed solely in terms of the amount goods it produces or its financial profits, but also by considering the cost of human health and happiness the goods were produced.
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