Eveleen O'Brien
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Eveleen O'Brien | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1901 Tubbercurry, County Sligo |
| Died | 31 July 1981 (aged 79–80) Dublin, Ireland |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
Eveleen O'Brien MD (1901 – 31 July 1981) was an Irish psychiatrist who worked in Irish asylum medicine, and cared for patients suffering from epilepsy. She also explored the crossover between neurology and psychiatry.[1]
Eveleen O'Brien,[1] sometimes recorded as Evelyn O'Brien,[2] was born in 1901 in Tubbercurry, County Sligo as the fourth child of six in a Catholic family. Her mother was Mary Josephine Ahearne, and her father was Thomas O’Brien.[1]
Education
She studied Latin and mathematics at the Ursuline Convent in Thurles and went to enrol in medicine in University College Dublin. She graduated in 1924 at the age of 23. To enhance her education, she finished neurology training in the Neurological Hospital, Queens Square, London, and then studied psychiatry in the Maudsley Hospital, London, where she earned a Diploma in Psychological Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians in 1929.[1] Later, in 1942, she earned her doctorate in medicine (MD or Medicinae Doctor) from the National University of Ireland with her thesis titled “Epilepsy and its theories, results of treatment”.[1]