Aubrey Lewis, Edward Mapother and the Maudsley

and professor of psy- chiatry from 1946 until his retirement in 1966, he exercised a profound influence on clinical practice, training and academic research.Many junior psychiatrists, whom he had supervised or taught, went on to become senior clinicians and academics in their own right.Although not a figure widely known to the public (indeed, Lewis shunned personal publicity), he commanded respect in other medical disciplines and among psychiatrists throughout the world.A formidable and sometimes intimidating figure, he had a passion for intellectual rigour and had little patience with imprecision or poorly thought-out ideas.More than any other individual, Lewis was responsible for raising the status of