Sue Stuart-Smith - The well gardened mind : rediscovering nature in the modern world

C ONTENTS

A prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Sue Stuart-Smith earned a degree in English Literature at Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor. She worked for the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician in psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently teaches at the Tavistock Clinic in London and is consultant to the DocHealth service. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over 30 years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ted May with some of his orchids, late 1960s.

Ted May with orchids (authors collection)

Sue and Tom with baby Rose, planting the first hedges in the courtyard at the Barn, 1988.

Sue and Tom with baby Rose (authors collection)

Stuart-Smith family group removing stones from the field in preparation for making the garden, 1990.

Stuart-Smith family preparing for the garden (authors collection)

Tulips in the Barn vegetable garden, including Mickey Mouse, Ballerina and Abu Hassan.

Tulips in the Barn vegetable garden (Marianne Majerus)

The Barn meadow with scabious in flower.

The Barn meadow with scabious in flower (Andrew Lawson)

View over the Barn west garden.

View over the Barn West garden (Andrew Lawson)

Sigmund Freud in his Berggasse study with orchid in flower, 1930s.

Sigmund Freud in his study (Freud Museum London)

Sigmund Freud in the garden of his new home at Maresfield Gardens, 1939.

Sigmund Freud in Maresfield gardens (Freud Museum London)

Sigmund Freud reclining in his garden bed, August 1939. Other seated figures are (left to right) Anna Freud, Prince George of Greece and Hanns Sachs.

Sigmund Freud reclining in his garden bed (Freud Museum London)

Donald Winnicott on his roof garden.

Donald Winnicott on his roof garden (Arthur Coles)

Insight Garden Project participants creating the flower garden at San Quentin jail in 2002.

Insight Garden Project participants creating the flower garden at San Quentin jail (courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

San Quentin flower garden, 2019.

San Quentin flower garden (courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Hilda Krus, director of the GreenHouse Program, working with participants at Rikers Island jail.

Hilda Krus with participants of the GreenHouse Program at Rikers Island jail (Lindsay Morris, courtesy of the Horticultural Society of New York)

GreenHouse Program vegetable garden on Rikers Island.

The vegetable garden on Rikers Island (Lucas Foglia, courtesy of the Horticultural Society of New York)

Gardening in the brain: microglia (green cells) visualised in the hippocampus of mouse brain (cell nuclei labelled in blue).

Microglia visualised in the hippocampus of a mouse brain (Rosa Chiara Paolicelli / EMBL)

Neurons and plants grow according to the same mathematical laws: cerebellar Purkinje neurons (green) and cell nuclei (cyan).

Cerebellar Purkinje neurons (Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, California)

Trench garden of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Spring 1915. The officer is Captain Irvine who was killed three months after the photograph was taken.

A trench garden developed by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Imperial War Museum)

Soldier of the Gordon Highlanders (51st Division) tending his trench garden. Heninel, 23 October 1917.

Soldier of the Gordon Highlanders tending to a trench garden (Imperial War Museum)

Carol Sales, horticultural therapist for HighGround.

Carol Sales, horticultural therapist for HighGround (Charlie Hopkinson)