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18 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh18 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 18: 1-13 (2008) ...... gY Published online in Wiley InterScience v lnterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/cbm.681 DISCOVER SOMETHING GREAT Editorial The end of faith in forensic psychiatry ADRIAN GROUNDS, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, UK In the year of Our Lord nineteen seventy two, a group of four brothers founded a new order within the Church of Psychiatry in England. They had a calling to create a mission to outcasts neglected by the established church. They began to gather together, and teach, and draw like minded novices to them. Their mission was to minister to the sick and care for the souls of mentally afflicted prisoners and criminals, to rescue them from their chains and provide for their relief in hospitals and in the parishes and towns. They wrote reports to the secular courts to enable merciful sentencing by means of medical treatment and mitigation. The forensic brothers were a progressive order, and soon welcomed sisters amongst their numbers. The order spread and new missions were founded across the length and breadth of the land. They built new hospitals, of idiosyncratic designs, to create places of hope and sanctuary and to free the afflicted of their pain (Snowden, 1981; Watson, 1998). Two abbots were appointed to lead the order, John of Camberwell,2 and Robert of Birmingham.' Both did great works and held to the doctrine of primus inter pares. The bishops of the wider Church of Psychiatry, who held great councils at Belgrave Square,4 were cautious about this new forensic order and insisted on designating it a sect. Only after years of persistent supplication did the bishops grant their order the title of a Faculty within the Church. Shortly before the order in England was founded, another small group in America, led by brother Jonas of Baltimore,5 gathered together in 1969. This order also grew and prospered, but the American brothers took a different path. Their mission was education, and they became scholars in Church Law rather than ministry to the sick. As befitted their scholastic pursuits, they named their order after the fruit of the tree of knowledge and became known as the Order of the Apple.6 Sometimes the different traditions of the British and American brothers Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 18: 1-13 (2008) DOI: 10.1002/cbm

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