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Mar 15, 1915 Died on 04 Nov 2005 (aged 90)
Welsh psychiatrist
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About Wilfred Abse
- David Wilfred Abse (15 March 1915 – 4 November 2005) was a Welsh psychiatrist.
- Abse was born in Cardiff, a brother of the poet Dannie Abse (1923–2014) and the politician Leo Abse (1917–2008).
- During and after World War II, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
- In 1941, he participated in the examination of the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess, who had been captured in Scotland during an unsuccessful peace mission.
- Abse was later stationed in India, eventually rising to the rank of Major. A psychoanalyst, Abse received his medical training from University of London, then emigrated to the United States to become professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- He 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 1980.
- 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.Abse's work in group analysis was influenced by S.H.
- Foulkes, who was in London at the same time as Abse.
- Abse wrote that in group-analytic psychotherapy, each patient's unconscious defense struggle becomes manifest, producing unconscious regression.
- Feelings about early figures from childhood are aroused and, through transference, fixed on the group leader (or conductor).
- Childish feelings of jealousy and rivalry lead participants to become concerned about which members in the group the group leader prefers.
