The British Journal of Psychiatry (2009) 195: 473-474. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072116
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EDITORIAL

Darwin’s contribution to psychiatry

Edward Shorter, PhD, FRSC, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine/Professor of Psychiatry

History of Medicine Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 88 College Street, Room 207, Toronto, Canada M5G 1L4. Email: history.medicine{at}utoronto.ca

Declaration of interest

None.

Edward Shorter is Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.

This November we celebrated the sesquicentennial of the Origin of Species, a landmark in the history of biology. Yet Darwin’s chief contribution to psychiatry appears in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), where he describes ‘the grief muscles’, later identified as a sign of melancholic illness.


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