====== Doctor Charles Highsmith ======

{{:doctor-charles-highsmith.jpg?direct&300 |}}Superintendent of [[St Agnes Asylum]]. Very much the country gentleman in tweeds and brogues, and obviously a pipe-smoker. Highsmith is a man of science (he's a member of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Psychoanalytical_Society|British Psycho-Analytical Society]] with a limited conversational range and no real interests outside his work (he is also unmarried). 

Highsmith is one of the three men who signed [[Alexander Roby|Alexander Roby's]] commitment papers(the others being [[Doctor Lionel Trollope]] and [[Grahame Roby]], and is the only one who seems keen to allow his release. He engaged [[Doctor Frederick Bartlett]] to consult on the matter and to make a recommendation either way.

He's coined the term 'Sympathetic Mania' to describe Roby's condition.