Background
He was born in Workington, Cumbria, into a working-class family of Huguenot descent – his father was a steel worker – yet he unusually gained a scholarship from technical school in Workington to Oxford University.
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Arthur Guirdham
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He graduated from both Oxford University and Charing Cross.
Career
Disease and the Social System (1942) was a groundbreaking meditation on the connections between biological disease and industrialized food and the social stresses of modernity. The Theory of Disease (1957), mentioned in Brian Inglis" History of Medicine, offered an early alternative perspective on mental illness and personality, including some ideas later taken up by the anti-psychiatry movement. Guirdham continue to write indefatigably in a variety of genres, including poetry.
After writing a couple of wartime thrillers he became increasingly interested in esoteric history and reincarnation.
He also wrote on Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung.
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United Kingdom