Bernard Hart (24 March 1879 – 16 March 1966) was a British physician and psychiatrist. After secondary education at University College School, Hampstead, and undergraduate education at

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, Bernard Hart graduated from University College Hospital Medical School with the Conjoint diploma of LRCP, MRCS in 1903, MB in 1904, and MD in 1912. After qualifying in 1903, he held house appointments at the East London Hospital for Children, and then studied psychiatry in Paris and Zurich. After working as an assistant physician at the Hertfordshire County Asylum, otherwise known as Hill End Hospital at

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, and at Long Grove Asylum in

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, he was appointed in 1913 as the first physician for psychological medicine at University College Hospital. At the beginning of WWI he joined the RAMC with the rank of major and served as lecturer in mental disease at Moss Side Military Hospital, Maghull, where veterans with shell-shock were treated. He was also physician to the Special Neurological Hospital for Officers at 10

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, West London, as well as psychiatric consultant to other military hospitals in London. After the end of WWI, he returned to University College Hospital and also joined the staff of the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy,

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, and the staff of the

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in south London. Upon the founding of ''The Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology'' in 1920, he was one of the nine members of the editorial committee, headed by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson. Hart's 1910 paper ''The conception of the subconscious'' introduced the works of

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and Freud to English-speaking psychologists. In 1925 he was elected FRCP. In 1926 he delivered the Goulstonian Lectures on ''The Development of Psychopathology and its Place in Medicine''. During the second world war he was chief adviser on psychiatric matters to the

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, working in close partnership with Gordon Holmes. He was appointed CBE in 1945 in recognition of this work. Two years later he retired and went to live at Eastbourne. In 1912 in the Strand area of Central London, Hart married Mabel E. Spark. He was a member of the Savile Club. His outdoor recreations were mountaineering and skiing.

Selected publications

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Bernard 1879 births 1966 deaths 20th-century English medical doctors English psychiatrists Royal Army Medical Corps officers Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians History of mental health in the United Kingdom People educated at University College School Alumni of University College London Alumni of the UCL Medical School Commanders of the Order of the British Empire