Dr. D. Wilfred Abse, 90, of Charlottesville, died on Friday, Nov. 04, 2005, at the family home, near the University.
Born Mar. 15, 1915, in Cardiff, Wales, he was the son of the late Rudolf Abse and Kate Shepherd Abse. Dr. Abse grew up in Britain, attending the University of Cardiff and later the University of London, where he completed his medical studies. During World War II, Dr. Abse served for four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, achieving the rank of major. He lived in the beleaguered cities, London and Cardiff, during the Battle of Britain (1939-1940).
He served as Deputy Medical Superintendent at Monmouthshire Mental Hospital at Abergavenny, Wales. He was a member of the team that examined the Nazi leader, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's second in command, after the German official flew to Scotland in 1941 on an ill-fated peace mission. Later, Dr. Abse was stationed in India, where he treated returning prisoners of war from the British and American campaigns to liberate Burma from the Japanese.
After the war, Dr. Abse completed his training in psychiatry and set up a practice in London, and served as Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In the early 1950s, he immigrated to the United States, where he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He worked closely with other researchers, such as Dr. Art Prang, to pioneer biological psychiatry while pursuing his psychoanalytic studies as an early graduate of the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education program, becoming Clinical Director , Dorothea Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In the words of Dr. Burton Hutto, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at U.N.C., "Dr. Abse is still remembered here for his broad scholarship." In Chapel Hill, he met and married his beloved wife, Elizabeth, before moving to the Charlottesville area where he practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for eighteen years. He also was made a faculty member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Abse was an advisor to presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern. In the 1980s, he served as director of psychiatric education at the St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford, Va., and for the David C. Wilson psychiatric hospital in Charlottesville.
In 1992, Dr. Abse returned to private practice in Charlottesville where he maintained a full schedule of outpatients until his retirement in 2000. At an active and intellectually vigorous 85 years old, he settled in at home to continue writing books and articles on medical, psychiatric and historic topics until his death.
Dr. Abse was a highly respected physician, to whom many other psychiatrists across the country referred. A prolific writer and author of numerous books and articles, his friendships ranged far beyond the medical community.
Surviving him are his loving wife, Elizabeth Smith Abse, of Charlottesville; their two sons, Edward Abse, an anthropologist, of Richmond and Nathan Abse, a journalist, of Washington, D.C.; daughter-in-law, Julie Thacker Abse; and grandchild, Aaron. He is also survived by his sister, Huldah Martin, of Menton, France; and Dr. Dannie Abse, 81, and Leo Abse, 88, both of London.
The family wishes to thank Becky Williams, Lillie Booker, Catrina Hatcher and Wendy Spencer, as well as , Sheila Johnston, Annie Fromm, Marion Hughes and David Flack, and others in the Hospice of the Piedmont staff, Dr. Barbara Post and Dr. Tom Platts-Mills, as well as friends, John Tenney, Coleman Kitchin, Elliot Brooks and Jim Stephens, and others who assisted in various ways in the care of Dr. Abse and his family.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005, in the Chapel of the Hill and Wood Funeral Home with the Rabbi Tom Gutherz officiating. In lieu of flowers the Abse family requests financial gifts to the Hospice of the Piedmont.
Hill and Wood Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
Born Mar. 15, 1915, in Cardiff, Wales, he was the son of the late Rudolf Abse and Kate Shepherd Abse. Dr. Abse grew up in Britain, attending the University of Cardiff and later the University of London, where he completed his medical studies. During World War II, Dr. Abse served for four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, achieving the rank of major. He lived in the beleaguered cities, London and Cardiff, during the Battle of Britain (1939-1940).
He served as Deputy Medical Superintendent at Monmouthshire Mental Hospital at Abergavenny, Wales. He was a member of the team that examined the Nazi leader, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's second in command, after the German official flew to Scotland in 1941 on an ill-fated peace mission. Later, Dr. Abse was stationed in India, where he treated returning prisoners of war from the British and American campaigns to liberate Burma from the Japanese.
After the war, Dr. Abse completed his training in psychiatry and set up a practice in London, and served as Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In the early 1950s, he immigrated to the United States, where he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He worked closely with other researchers, such as Dr. Art Prang, to pioneer biological psychiatry while pursuing his psychoanalytic studies as an early graduate of the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education program, becoming Clinical Director , Dorothea Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In the words of Dr. Burton Hutto, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at U.N.C., "Dr. Abse is still remembered here for his broad scholarship." In Chapel Hill, he met and married his beloved wife, Elizabeth, before moving to the Charlottesville area where he practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for eighteen years. He also was made a faculty member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Abse was an advisor to presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern. In the 1980s, he served as director of psychiatric education at the St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford, Va., and for the David C. Wilson psychiatric hospital in Charlottesville.
In 1992, Dr. Abse returned to private practice in Charlottesville where he maintained a full schedule of outpatients until his retirement in 2000. At an active and intellectually vigorous 85 years old, he settled in at home to continue writing books and articles on medical, psychiatric and historic topics until his death.
Dr. Abse was a highly respected physician, to whom many other psychiatrists across the country referred. A prolific writer and author of numerous books and articles, his friendships ranged far beyond the medical community.
Surviving him are his loving wife, Elizabeth Smith Abse, of Charlottesville; their two sons, Edward Abse, an anthropologist, of Richmond and Nathan Abse, a journalist, of Washington, D.C.; daughter-in-law, Julie Thacker Abse; and grandchild, Aaron. He is also survived by his sister, Huldah Martin, of Menton, France; and Dr. Dannie Abse, 81, and Leo Abse, 88, both of London.
The family wishes to thank Becky Williams, Lillie Booker, Catrina Hatcher and Wendy Spencer, as well as , Sheila Johnston, Annie Fromm, Marion Hughes and David Flack, and others in the Hospice of the Piedmont staff, Dr. Barbara Post and Dr. Tom Platts-Mills, as well as friends, John Tenney, Coleman Kitchin, Elliot Brooks and Jim Stephens, and others who assisted in various ways in the care of Dr. Abse and his family.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005, in the Chapel of the Hill and Wood Funeral Home with the Rabbi Tom Gutherz officiating. In lieu of flowers the Abse family requests financial gifts to the Hospice of the Piedmont.
Hill and Wood Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
Dr. D. Wilfred Abse, 90, of Charlottesville, died on Friday, Nov. 04, 2005, at the family home, near the University.
Born Mar. 15, 1915, in Cardiff, Wales, he was the son of the late Rudolf Abse and Kate Shepherd Abse. Dr. Abse grew up in Britain, attending the University of Cardiff and later the University of London, where he completed his medical studies. During World War II, Dr. Abse served for four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, achieving the rank of major. He lived in the beleaguered cities, London and Cardiff, during the Battle of Britain (1939-1940).
He served as Deputy Medical Superintendent at Monmouthshire Mental Hospital at Abergavenny, Wales. He was a member of the team that examined the Nazi leader, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's second in command, after the German official flew to Scotland in 1941 on an ill-fated peace mission. Later, Dr. Abse was stationed in India, where he treated returning prisoners of war from the British and American campaigns to liberate Burma from the Japanese.
After the war, Dr. Abse completed his training in psychiatry and set up a practice in London, and served as Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In the early 1950s, he immigrated to the United States, where he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He worked closely with other researchers, such as Dr. Art Prang, to pioneer biological psychiatry while pursuing his psychoanalytic studies as an early graduate of the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education program, becoming Clinical Director , Dorothea Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In the words of Dr. Burton Hutto, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at U.N.C., "Dr. Abse is still remembered here for his broad scholarship." In Chapel Hill, he met and married his beloved wife, Elizabeth, before moving to the Charlottesville area where he practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for eighteen years. He also was made a faculty member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Abse was an advisor to presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern. In the 1980s, he served as director of psychiatric education at the St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford, Va., and for the David C. Wilson psychiatric hospital in Charlottesville.
In 1992, Dr. Abse returned to private practice in Charlottesville where he maintained a full schedule of outpatients until his retirement in 2000. At an active and intellectually vigorous 85 years old, he settled in at home to continue writing books and articles on medical, psychiatric and historic topics until his death.
Dr. Abse was a highly respected physician, to whom many other psychiatrists across the country referred. A prolific writer and author of numerous books and articles, his friendships ranged far beyond the medical community.
Surviving him are his loving wife, Elizabeth Smith Abse, of Charlottesville; their two sons, Edward Abse, an anthropologist, of Richmond and Nathan Abse, a journalist, of Washington, D.C.; daughter-in-law, Julie Thacker Abse; and grandchild, Aaron. He is also survived by his sister, Huldah Martin, of Menton, France; and Dr. Dannie Abse, 81, and Leo Abse, 88, both of London.
The family wishes to thank Becky Williams, Lillie Booker, Catrina Hatcher and Wendy Spencer, as well as , Sheila Johnston, Annie Fromm, Marion Hughes and David Flack, and others in the Hospice of the Piedmont staff, Dr. Barbara Post and Dr. Tom Platts-Mills, as well as friends, John Tenney, Coleman Kitchin, Elliot Brooks and Jim Stephens, and others who assisted in various ways in the care of Dr. Abse and his family.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005, in the Chapel of the Hill and Wood Funeral Home with the Rabbi Tom Gutherz officiating. In lieu of flowers the Abse family requests financial gifts to the Hospice of the Piedmont.
Hill and Wood Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
Born Mar. 15, 1915, in Cardiff, Wales, he was the son of the late Rudolf Abse and Kate Shepherd Abse. Dr. Abse grew up in Britain, attending the University of Cardiff and later the University of London, where he completed his medical studies. During World War II, Dr. Abse served for four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, achieving the rank of major. He lived in the beleaguered cities, London and Cardiff, during the Battle of Britain (1939-1940).
He served as Deputy Medical Superintendent at Monmouthshire Mental Hospital at Abergavenny, Wales. He was a member of the team that examined the Nazi leader, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's second in command, after the German official flew to Scotland in 1941 on an ill-fated peace mission. Later, Dr. Abse was stationed in India, where he treated returning prisoners of war from the British and American campaigns to liberate Burma from the Japanese.
After the war, Dr. Abse completed his training in psychiatry and set up a practice in London, and served as Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Charing Cross Hospital in London. In the early 1950s, he immigrated to the United States, where he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He worked closely with other researchers, such as Dr. Art Prang, to pioneer biological psychiatry while pursuing his psychoanalytic studies as an early graduate of the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Education program, becoming Clinical Director , Dorothea Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In the words of Dr. Burton Hutto, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at U.N.C., "Dr. Abse is still remembered here for his broad scholarship." In Chapel Hill, he met and married his beloved wife, Elizabeth, before moving to the Charlottesville area where he practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for eighteen years. He also was made a faculty member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Abse was an advisor to presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern. In the 1980s, he served as director of psychiatric education at the St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford, Va., and for the David C. Wilson psychiatric hospital in Charlottesville.
In 1992, Dr. Abse returned to private practice in Charlottesville where he maintained a full schedule of outpatients until his retirement in 2000. At an active and intellectually vigorous 85 years old, he settled in at home to continue writing books and articles on medical, psychiatric and historic topics until his death.
Dr. Abse was a highly respected physician, to whom many other psychiatrists across the country referred. A prolific writer and author of numerous books and articles, his friendships ranged far beyond the medical community.
Surviving him are his loving wife, Elizabeth Smith Abse, of Charlottesville; their two sons, Edward Abse, an anthropologist, of Richmond and Nathan Abse, a journalist, of Washington, D.C.; daughter-in-law, Julie Thacker Abse; and grandchild, Aaron. He is also survived by his sister, Huldah Martin, of Menton, France; and Dr. Dannie Abse, 81, and Leo Abse, 88, both of London.
The family wishes to thank Becky Williams, Lillie Booker, Catrina Hatcher and Wendy Spencer, as well as , Sheila Johnston, Annie Fromm, Marion Hughes and David Flack, and others in the Hospice of the Piedmont staff, Dr. Barbara Post and Dr. Tom Platts-Mills, as well as friends, John Tenney, Coleman Kitchin, Elliot Brooks and Jim Stephens, and others who assisted in various ways in the care of Dr. Abse and his family.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005, in the Chapel of the Hill and Wood Funeral Home with the Rabbi Tom Gutherz officiating. In lieu of flowers the Abse family requests financial gifts to the Hospice of the Piedmont.
Hill and Wood Funeral Home is assisting the family with funeral arrangements.
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