Description | Collection of Dr W.S.Inman's papers (mostly reprints) containing reports, articles, published letters and other contributions, many in their original form, concerning Dr W.S.Inman's variety of interests in the psychosomatic opthalmology field.
Items available are: Inm/001/01/01/01 Report of Opthalmic Surgeon to Portsmouth Education Committee Inm/001/01/01/02 Emotion and Eye Symptons Inm/001/01/01/03 Report of Opthalmic Surgeon to Portsmouth Education Committee Inm/001/01/01/04 Critical Notice Inm/001/01/01/05 An Inquiry into the origin of Squint, Left-Handedness and Stammer Inm/001/01/01/06 Chapter on Eye Symptons Inm/001/01/01/07 The Non-Luetic Argyll Robertson Pupil Inm/001/01/01/08 Emotion and Acute Glucoma Inm/001/01/01/09 Nervous Children and Defective Vision Inm/001/01/01/10 The Emotional Factor in the Causation of Diseases of the Eye Inm/001/01/01/11 Left-Handedness Inm/001/01/01/12 The Emotional Factor in the Causation of Retinal Detachment Inm/001/01/01/13 The Emotional Factor in the Causation of Squint and Inflammation of the Eyes Inm/001/01/01/14 The Emotional Factor in the Causation of Squint Inm/001/01/01/15 The Emotional Factor in the Causation of Diseases of the Eyelids Inm/001/01/01/16 Ocular Reaction to Foreign Protein Inm/001/01/01/17 The Symbolic Significance of glass and its relation to diseases of the eye Inm/001/01/01/18 Sympathetic Disturbance in connection with thoughts of death by hanging Inm/001/01/01/19 A Question of Spectacles Inm/001/01/01/20 The Couvade in Modern England Inm/001/01/01/21 If Thine Eye be Single Inm/001/01/01/22 Left Handers, Ancient and Modern Inm/001/01/01/23 About 0.5D Cylinder Inm/001/01/01/24 Styes, Barley and Wedding Rings Inm/001/01/01/25 Can Emotional Conflict Induce Disseminated Sclerosis? Inm/001/01/01/26 Clinical Observations on Morbid Periodicity Inm/001/01/01/27 Supernumerary Nipples and Neurosis Inm/001/01/01/28 Lacrimation and Micturition Inm/001/01/01/29 Periodicity: Guy Fawkes Day Inm/001/01/01/30 Emotion and Spasmodic Entropion Inm/001/01/01/31 The Moon, The Seasons and Man Inm/001/01/01/32 Time and G.B.S. Inm/001/01/01/33 Emotion and Eye Symptons Inm/001/01/01/34 Emotional Factors in Eye Disease Inm/001/01/01/35 Nine-Monthly Scleritis in a Childless Woman Inm/001/01/01/36 Clinical Thought-Reading Inm/001/01/01/37 Can a blow cause cancer? Inm/001/01/01/38 Ophthalmic adventure: a story of frustration and organic disease Inm/001/01/01/39 Emotion and Rodent Ulcer Inm/001/01/01/40 Emotional factors in disease of the cornea Inm/001/01/01/41 Review of 'The Wild Analyst' Inm/001/01/01/42 Emotion, cancer and time: coincidence or determinism? Inm/001/01/01/43 Birth events, appendicitis, and appendectomy Inm/001/01/01/44 Sigmund Freud, FRS meets Isaac Newton, FRS |
AdminHistory | Dr William Inman (1875-1968) was born in Yorkshire in 1875. A Sheffield student Inman spent 4 years at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital before heading off to Portsmouth in 1904. In 1907 Inman was appointed opthalmic surgeon to the Portsmouth & Southern Counties Eye and Ear Hospital.
In 1918-1919 he met Dr.Millais Culpin who introduced him to Freud's theory of unconscious processes in human and health and disease. From then on Inman applied theses ideas in his School Clinics, Hospital and private practice, and published his findings from 1919 to 1924. In 1925 Inman spent a year training with Dr.Ferenczi in psycho-analysis in Budapest and in the same year he was elected Associate Member of the Psycho-analytic Society. From 1904 to 1924 Inman combined his role of opthalmic surgeon with his role of practising psycho-analyist. In 1944 he retired from his hospital appointment but still pursued his psychosomatic research work in the Out-Patient Department which he continued weekly until his death in 1968.
In 1968 a bequest was left by Inman to the British Psychological Society, to provide an annual "William Inman Prize" for the best original work on Psychosomatic Opthalmology published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, or in any other journal approved by the Society. |
Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material. |