Grace Pailthorpe

Grace Pailthorpe.  English physician and painter. Born in Surrey in 1890, died in 1971. Studied medicine and worked as a surgeon during the First World War. Traveled around the world, returning to England in 1922 where she took up the study of psychological medicine. Published Studies in the Psychology of Delinquency and, in 1928, founded the first institute in the world devoted to the scientific treatment of delinquency. Began research into the psychology of automatism in 1935 with Reuben Mednikoff and the following year began exhibiting drawings and paintings with the Surrealists. Published '& The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism" in the London Bulletin in December 1938. Exhibitions: London (1936), New York (1937).

For a startling assessment of Pailthorpe's work:

http://www.artcornwall.org/profiles/Pailthorpe_and_Mednikoff.htm