The Oxford University Department of Psychiatry 1969–1996

The Oxford University Department of Psychiatry was founded in 1969 during a period in which new psychiatry departments were being established in most undergraduate medical schools. It was the realisation of plans that had been formulated over at least 10 years by local psychiatrists and by leading members of the Clinical School, most notably by Sir George Pickering, the first clinically active Regius Professor since Osier.