Dr. Fredk W. Mott M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Brevet Lt-Col R.A.M.C. (T)

Mott was Senior Neurologist to the Maudsley Neurological Clearing Hospital; Consulting Physician at the Charing Cross Hospital; Director of the Pathological Laboratory of the L.C.C. Asylums; and Corresponding Member of the Neurological and Psychiatrical Societies of Paris. He was born in Brighton in 1853 and died in Birmingham in 1926. He was noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to mental illness, and consequently as a psychiatrist and social scientist. The Maudsley Hospital in London was Mott's idea, inspired by a similar clinic in Germany; he was very much involved with the negotiations for its funding and construction. His reputation was greatly enhanced by his helping to establish that "general paralysis of the insane" was actually due to syphilis, but he was criticised for overly organic and degenerative assumptions in regard to mental illness, including shell shock.

RCC8075 War Neuroses and Shell Shock (Mott)