Ann Dally (29 March 1926, in

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– 24 March 2007, in Graffham,

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) was an English

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and

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. Born Ann Gwendolen Mullins, she was the eldest child of the lawyer Claud William Mullins (1887–1968) and his wife, the weaver and patron of the arts Elizabeth Gwendolen Brandt (1904–1997). Dally studied at

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. She married Dr. Peter Dally in 1950. Dally was the first woman to study medicine at

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in 1953 and became a Harley Street psychiatrist. She undertook controversial treatment of heroin addicts and was put on trial by the

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and the

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. She wrote about her experience in ''A Doctor's Story'' (1990).

Bibliography

* ''An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Medicine'' (1966) * ''Cicely: The Story of a Doctor'' (1968) * ''The Birth of a Child: A Doctor's-eye-view Documentary of a Child Being Born'' (1969) * ''Mothers: Their Power and Influence'' (1976) * ''The Morbid Streak: Destructive Aspects of the Personality'' (1978) * ''Why Women Fail: Achievement and Choice for Modern Women'' (1979) * ''Inventing Motherhood: The Consequences of an Ideal'' (1982) * ''A Doctor's Story'' (1990) * ''Women Under the Knife - A history of surgery'' (1992) Hutchinson Radius, London * ''The Trouble with Doctors: Fashions, Motives and Mistakes'' (2003)

References

External links

Dr Ann Dally, Reprint from ''The Guardian'' 30 March 2007

1926 births 2007 deaths English psychiatrists 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Alumni of King's College London British women psychiatrists {{england-writer-stub