John P. Gray (psychiatrist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American psychiatrist
Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1825
Place of Birth: Halfmoon Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 29-Nov-1886
Profession: psychiatrist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About John P. Gray (psychiatrist)
- John Perdue Gray (Aug 6, 1825, Halfmoon Township (Pennsylvania) - Nov 29, 1886, Utica, New York) was an American psychiatrist at the forefront of biological psychiatric theory during the 19th century.He attended Dickinson College, then the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he received his medical diploma in 1848.
- He spent on year of further studies in Europe, then is a resident at Blockley Asylum in Philadelphia.
- In 1850, Gray works in Utica Psychiatric Center in New York and superintendent in 1854, until his death in 1886.
- He was also the editor of the American Journal of Insanity, the precursor to the American Journal of Psychiatry.
- He was an psychiatric expert in the trial for the assassination of president James A.
- GarfieldGray believed that insanity was always due to physical causes and that the mentally ill should be treated as physically ill.
- He explained that mental illness can be affected by physical factors relating to an individual.
- He studied 3 such factors namely; diet, temperature and ventilation.
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