Wilfred Abse

David Wilfred Abse (1914 – 4 November 2005) was a Welsh psychiatrist.

Abse was born in Cardiff, a brother of the poet Dannie Abse (born 1923) and the politician Leo Abse (1917-2008). An eminent psychoanalyst, Abse spent the greater part of his career in Charlottesville, Virginia where he was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia from 1962 until 2000.^[1] Abse was known for his work in group therapy and hysteria, and contributed to the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.^[2] It was said that his younger brother Leo got his habit of Freudian allusion in his speeches from Wilfred.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Inside UVA - Volume 36, Issue 3". University of Virginia. February 17 - March 2, 2006. http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2006/03/faculty_actions.html. Retrieved 10 December 2010. 
2. ^ Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, January 1956 - Volume 123 - Issue 1 - ppg 32-40
3. ^ Luke Shepherd

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Name	Abse, David Wilfred
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh psychiatrist
Date of birth	1914
Place of birth	Cardiff
Date of death	November 4, 2005
Place of death