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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-05-20 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007713b.htm person MacPherson John CB AACR2 1857 1942 Place of Birth Dores, Inverness, Scotland Place of Death United Kingdom Medical practitioner Psychiatrist John MacPherson was the first Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney. He arrived in Sydney in July 1922 following a distinguished career in Scotland during which he was Commissioner for Lunacy for over 20 years, and served as president during WWI of a special medical board dealing with nervous disorders. MacPherson's duties as Professor included delivering undergraduate lectures and conducting morning demonstrations at Broughton Hall Special Hospital and the adjacent Callan Park Mental Hospital. He instituted a successful mental health clinic at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1923. Upon the University ratifying a Diploma of Psychological Medicine, MacPherson was largely responsible for its implementation. During his time in New South Wales Macpherson regularly attended scientific meetings, including the inaugural Australasian Medical Congress in 1923, presenting a number of papers. He gave evidence to the New South Wales Royal Commission on Lunacy Law in April 1923, commenting on overcrowding in mental hospitals and proposing the creation of psychiatric outpatient and inpatient facilities in general hospitals throughout New South Wales. MacPherson returned to the United Kingdom in 1926. 1882 1882 Education - MB CM, University of Edinburgh 1882 1889 Career position - Assistant Physician, Royal Edinburgh Asylum 1889 1899 Career position - Medical Superintendent, Stirling District Asylum, Larbert, Scotland 1896 1896 Education - MD, University of Edinburgh 1899 1899 Career event - Textbook Mental affections: an introduction to the study of insanity published 1899 1921 Career position - Commissioner of Lunacy for Scotland 1910 1911 Career position - 1910 - 1911 President, Royal Medico-Psychological Association 1922 1922 Award - Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) 1922 1926 Career position - Inaugural Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney July 1922 July 1922 Life event - Arrived in Sydney 1923 1923 Career event - Attended inaugural Australasian Medical Congress 1924 1924 Career position - Chairman, Neurology and Psychiatry section, New South Wales Branch, British Medical Association 1928 1928 Award - Maudsley Lecturer, Institute of Psychoanalysis, United Kingdom The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Professor of Psychiatry 1922 - 1926

 'MacPherson, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology MacPherson, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Mental affections: an introduction to the study of insanity Macpherson, J. Mental affections: an introduction to the study of insanity London Macmillan and Company 1899 Journal Article: The relation of neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis to the manic-depressive syndrome Macpherson, J. The relation of neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis to the manic-depressive syndrome 1925 Medical journal of Australia 1 24 618-24 Journal Article: Neurasthenia, hysteria and epilepsy Macpherson, J. Neurasthenia, hysteria and epilepsy 1924 Medical journal of Australia 1 9 210-3 Journal Article: Sir John Macpherson, the first but sometimes overlooked Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney White, Richard T. Sir John Macpherson, the first but sometimes overlooked Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney 2014 Australasian psychiatry 22 4 378-82