Henry Maudsley brief period in public and charitable asylums. In the same year he was appointed co-editor of the "Journal of Mental Science", an influential position he retained for 15 years. Maudsley was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their Gulstonian Lectures in 1870 on "Body and Mind". The text of Maudsley's lectures was studied carefully by Charles Darwin in the preparation of his "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872). Maudsley was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at University College London from 1869 to 1879. Maudsley married John Conolly's daughter, Ann Conolly, in
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals induce directly opposing movements. Finally, he discusses a "direct action of the nervous system", in which an overflow of emotion is widely discharged, producing more generally expressed emotions. This is followed by a section (three more chapters) on modes of emotional expression peculiar to particular species, including man. He then moves on to the main argument with his characteristic approach of astonishingly widespread and detailed observations. Chapter 7 discusses "low spirits", including anxiety, grief, dejection and despair; and the contrasting Chapter 8 "high spirits" with joy, love, tender feelings and devotion. Subsequent chapters include considerations of "reflection and meditation" (associated