Wilfred Abse
Psychiatrist, Deceased Person
1915 – 2005
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Who was Wilfred Abse?
David Wilfred Abse was a Welsh psychiatrist.
Abse was born in Cardiff, a brother of the poet Dannie Abse and the politician Leo Abse. 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. Abse was known for his work in group therapy and hysteria, and contributed to the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. It was said that his younger brother Leo got his habit of Freudian allusion in his speeches from Wilfred.
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- Born
- Mar 15, 1915
Cardiff - Also known as
- David Wilfred Abse
- Nationality
- Wales
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 4, 2005
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on July 23, 2013
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