Who deserves to die?
Our hero, meanwhile, is actively pursuing a psychiatric career. He becomes an army psychiatrist and the first British psychiatrist. He is also a member of the Parole Board. In 1959, Ley was recommended by the Royal Commission on the Death Penalty as an independent psychiatrist to carry out psychiatric examinations of the criminals to be hanged.
One of Ley's most famous cases was that of Gunter Podol, who was charged with the murder of a policeman. In his defense, Podol claimed to have been beaten by a policeman, after which he was amnesiacally ill and did not remember what happened afterward. Ley managed to prove that the amnesia was simulated. Podol was sentenced to hang and confessed to murder and simulation before he died.
In addition, Leah's famous trial was a speech on the side of the Crown in the case against the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover", as obscene. But in the case of the ill-treatment of special operations investigators with members of the Irish Republican Army, Ley has already spoken out against the Queen.
Psychiatrist James Bond
As the most renowned expert psychiatrist, yet completely impartial, Ley was respected and respected by the intelligence agencies. He was the one who gave psychiatric assessment when hiring secret service agents MI5 and MI6 - and this, as we shall remind, is the time of the appearance of novels about James Bond. So agent 007 with a license to kill, if he existed in reality, would not have been hired without the visa of Denis Ley.
pic. James Bond played by Daniel Craig
He also had to treat spies. Many of the double agents who worked in the USSR used Ley's knowledge during his rehabilitation upon his return to Britain. At the same time, Lei provided excellent advice on the treatment of a Soviet general in a Soviet psychiatric hospital.
Only seven years of fame - and in 1966 Ley was already the head, general secretary of the World Psychiatric Association. And in this position, he did not allow the USSR to be excluded from it for "punitive psychiatry".
Ley is also known as a psychiatry historian: he wrote a wonderful work "The historical development of British psychiatry".
The last acronym, "psychiatrist", FRCPsych, became part of his "title" in 1971. Ley proudly wore it for more than a quarter of a century.
His name was immortalized by one clinical case he found himself in an unloved job. He did a lot of things that will be kept under the heading "For your eyes only" for a long time to come.
But even the information that is known today is enough to know and remember Archibald Denis Ley.