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Ivor Browne, the psychiatrist who reformed Ireland’s old-fashioned treatment of mental illness – obituary

Ivor Browne, at his home in Ranelagh, Dublin: fought the overprescription of mood-altering drugs and argued electroconvulsive therapy should be a last resort – Joe St Leger/THE IRISH TIMES Ivor Browne, who has died aged 94, was a psychiatrist who changed the public perception of mental illness in Ireland, overseeing the move from stuffy hospital… Read More »