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Russell Barton (psychiatrist) (1923-2002). Barton qualified as a doctor from Westminster Hospital, London, in 1947. He completed his National Service in the Royal Navy after which he was appointed Registrar and Clinical Tutor at Westminster. Having chosen psychiatry as his life's work, he began his training at the Maudsley Hospital under Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Then he was appointed Senior Medical Officer at Shenley Hospital, Radlett, Hertfordshire, to be followed by his appointment in 1960 to the important post as Physician Superintendent of Severalls Hospital, Colchester, Essex. Both were psychiatric hospitals. He obtained the Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1954, Membership of the Royal College of Physicians  1959, and was elected to the foundation fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1971. He turned-round Severalls Hospital, from a poor hospital to a dynamic, proactive psychiatric hospital. His book Institutional Neurosis, the effects of institutionalization (also called institutional syndrome) a reached three editions and was translated into several languages.