Criminal Lunacy by Sir Julian Freke

Thanks to World War I Centennial Commission 

Title: Criminal Lunacy

Author: Sir Julian Freke

Publisher: Not known but printed in 1914

Source book: Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers 

Sir Julian Freke, a famous surgeon, also a distinguished neurologist with a highly original point of view (according to Lord Peter Wimsey, Sir Julian thinks God is a secretion of the liver), is the author of a number of medical textbooks including Some Notes on the Pathalogical Aspects of Genius (1892), 

Statistical Contributions to the Study of Infantile Paralysis in England and Wales (1894), 

Functional Disturbances of the Nervous System (1899), 

Cerebro-Spinal Diseases (1904), 

The Borderline of Insanity (1906), 

Modern Developments in Psycho-Therapy: A Criticism (1910), 

The Application of Psycho-Therapy to the Treatment of Shell-Shock (1917), 

An Answer to Professor Freud, With a Description of Some Experiments Carried Out at the Base Hospital in Amiens (1919), 

Structural Modifications Accompanying the More Important Neuroses (1920),

plus The Physiological Bases of the Conscience (reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement1922ish).

Here’s the Who’s Who entry for Sir Julian: FREKE, Sir Julian, Kt. cr. 1916; G.C.V.O. cr. 1919; K.C.V.O. 1917; K.C.B. 1918; M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Dr. en Méd. Paris; D. Sci. Cantab.; Knight of Grace of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem; Consulting Surgeon of St. Luke’s Hospital, Battersea. b. Gryllingham, 16 March, 1872, only son of Edward Curzon Freke, Esq., of Gryll Court, Gryllingham. Educ. Harrow and Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Col. A.M.S.; late Member of the Advisory Board of the Army Medical Service. Publications: Some Notes on the Pathological Aspects of Genius, 1892; Statistical Contributions to the Study of Infantile Paralysis in England and Wales, 1894; Functional Disturbances of the Nervous System, 1899; Cerebro-Spinal Diseases, 1904; The Borderland of Insanity, 1906; An Examination into the Treatment of Pauper Lunacy in the United Kingdom, 1906; Modern Developments in Psycho-Therapy: A Criticism, 1910; Criminal Lunacy, 1914; The Application of Psycho-Therapy to the Treatment of Shell-Shock, 1917; An Answer to Professor Freud, with a Description of Some Experiments Carried Out at the Base Hospital at Amiens, 1919; Structural Modifications Accompanying the More Important Neuroses, 1920. Clubs: White’s; Oxford and Cambridge; Alpine, etc. Recreations: Chess, Mountaineering, Fishing. Address: 282, Harley Street and St. Luke’s House, Prince of Wales Road, Battersea Park, S.W.11.

There is something ironic about Sir Julian writing all these books about insanity and psycho-therapy but I don’t propose to tell you what it is. Guess.

Thanks to Verywell Mind