Ivor Browne obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who was a musician at heart
His true legacy was the freedom enjoyed by thousands of people who avoided institutionalisation as a result of the reforms
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His true legacy was the freedom enjoyed by thousands of people who avoided institutionalisation as a result of the reforms
President Michael D Higgins in attendance as ‘iconoclastic, unafraid’ psychiatrist is laid to rest
Professor Ivor Browne, who has died aged 94, was a leading psychiatrist who held senior positions in the Irish health system and in the academic world as well as being a talented musician. Born on March 18, 1929 at 1 Sandycove Avenue in south Co Dublin, he was christened with the first names William Ivory. However, when he discovered later that “William Ivory” had been the name of a Cromwellian soldier who was given the lands of the Browne family in the townland of Mulrankin, Co Wexford, after Oliver Cromwell crushed the rebellion of 1649, the name Ivor became his preferred option.
The Irish psychiatrist at the heart of a new documentary has transformed our view of mental illness
Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women