High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr William A. F. Browne (1805–1885) was one of the most significant psychiatrists of the nineteenth century. At Montrose Asylum (1834–1838) in Angus and, later, at Crichton Royal in Dumfries (1838–1857), Browne introduced activities for patients including writing, art, group activity and drama, pioneered early forms of occupational therapy and art therapy, and initiated one of the earliest collections of artistic work by patients in a psychiatric hospital.Browne may be counted alongside Vincenzo Chiarugi, William Tuke and Philippe Pinel as one of the pioneers of the moral treatment of the insane. In 1857, Browne was appointed Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland and, in 1866, he was elected the first President of the Medico-Psychological Association, now the Royal College of Psychiatrists. As a medical student, Browne had been fascinated by phrenology and Lamarckian evolution, joining the Edinburgh Phrenological Society on 1st April 1824, and...

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