Ann Dally

Ann Dally (29 March 1926, in London – 24 March 2007, in Graffham, West Sussex[1]) was an English author and psychiatrist.

Born Ann Gwendolen Mullins, she was the eldest child of the lawyer Claud William Mullins (1887–1968) and his wife Elizabeth Gwendolen Brandt (1904–1997).[2] Dally studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She married Dr. Peter Dally in 1950. Dally was the first woman to study medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1953 and became a Harley Street Psychiatrist.

She undertook controversial treatment of heroin addicts and was put on trial by the General Medical Council and the National Health Service. She wrote about her experience in A Doctor's Story (1990).

Bibliography
  • A Doctor's Story (1990)
  • Inventing Motherhood
  • Why Women Fail
  • The Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Medicine
  • A Child is Born
  • Cicely: The Story of a Doctor
  • Mothers - their power and influence
  • The Morbid Streak: Destructive Aspects of the Personality
  • Women Under the Knife - A history of surgery Hutchinson Radius, London, 1991, ISBN 0-09-174508-X

References
Library resources about
Ann Dally
  1. Library of Congress Name Authority File
  2. Crawford, Catherine. "Dally, Ann Gwendolen". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98642. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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