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Ann Dally

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Ann Dally (29 March 1929, London – 24 March 2007, Graffham, West Sussex[1]) was an English author and psychiatrist.

Born Ann Gwendolen Mullins, she married Dr. Peter Dally in 1950. She qualified in medicine from St Thomas Hospital, London in 1953 and became a Harley Street Psychiatrist.

She undertook controversial treatment of heroin addicts and was put on trial by the General Medical Council and the National Health Service. She wrote about her experience in A Doctor's Story (1990).

Bibliography

  • A Doctor's Story (1990)
  • Inventing Motherhood
  • Why Women Fail
  • The Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Medicine
  • A Child is Born
  • Cicely: The Story of a Doctor
  • Mothers - their power and influence
  • The Morbid Streak: Destructive Aspects of the Personality
  • Women Under the Knife - A history of surgery Hutchinson Radius, London, 1991, ISBN 0-09-174508-X

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