Alexis Brook
Alexis Brook (24 January 1920 – 7 August 2007) was a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was born in Chiswick, London, the eldest son of Simon Brook and Ida Jansen, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia. He studied medicine at Cambridge and qualified in 1943. From 1944 to 1947 he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Far East, which inspired his interest in mental health.
After the war he trained at the Maudsley Hospital and Napsbury Hospital. He specialised in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Cassel Hospital in 1956 and moved to the Tavistock Clinic in 1971. He also lectured at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He retired from the NHS in 1985 but worked as an honorary consultant psychotherapist at St Mark's Hospital from 1986 to 1995.
Brook wrote on topics such as emotional problems in general practice, mental health in the workplace, how mental health affects gut disorders, and psychosomatic ophthalmology.
He is survived by two children from his first marriage to Maureen, two stepchildren from his second marriage to Ruth, and his brother Peter Brook, niece Irina Brook, and nephew Simon Brook. He died in 2007 aged 87.
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