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Harold Dearden (13 December 1882 – 6 July 1962) was a British psychiatrist and screenwriter.

Harold Dearden
Born(1882-12-13)13 December 1882
Bolton
Died6 July 1962(1962-07-06) (aged 79)
Hay-on-Wye
OccupationPsychiatrist, screenwriter

Biography


Dearden was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and London Hospital. He qualified as a physician in 1911.[1]

During World War I, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a medical officer for the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards. In 1916, he became honorary Captain. At the Battle of the Somme he was wounded, suffering from a lost eye and shell shock. He was later invalided out of the war.[1][2][3]

During World War II, Dearden worked as a psychiatrist and was principal interrogator at Camp 020.[3]

He wrote the play Interference (with Roland Pertwee). He also wrote the Two White Arms which became a successful film.[1] In 1943, he married Ann Verity Gibson Watt, they had four children.[2]

He died at his home in Hay-on-Wye from cerebral thrombosis.[1]


Spiritualism


Dearden was skeptical of claims of psychical phenomena and spiritualism. In his book Devilish But True: The Doctor Looks at Spiritualism (1936), he compared cases of witchcraft to spiritualist mediums. He noted the similarity of hysterical behaviour and hallucinations.[4]

In 1927, he wrote an article How Spiritualists are Deluded.[5] Dearden attended séances and was a judge for a group formed by the Sunday Chronicle to investigate the materialization medium Harold Evans. During a séance Evans was exposed as a fraud. He was caught masquerading as a spirit, in a white nightshirt.[6]


Publications



References


  1. Anonymous. (1962). Harold Dearden, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. The British Medical Journal 2 (5298): 197–198.
  2. "Dr. Harold Dearden - Psychiatrist at Camp 020". Giselle K. Jakobs, 2014.
  3. West, Nigel. (2009). The A to Z of British Intelligence. The Scarecrow Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8108-6865-6
  4. Anonymous. (1936). Notes on Books. The British Medical Journal 1 (3938): 1303.
  5. Dearden, Harold. (April 9, 1927). How Spiritualists are Deluded. The Graphic. pp. 50–51.
  6. Price, Harry. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research: A Critical Survey. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 202
  7. "The Wind of Circumstance". Kirkus Reviews.
  8. "Time and Chance". The Spectator.





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