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Death has exacted a heavy toll from the ranks of psychoanalysts within recent months.
From New York we learn of the deaths of Drs. Fritz Wittels and Kilian K. Bluhm, and from Washington of the loss of Dr. Miriam Francis Dunn.
With others of his era Fritz Wittels was closely identified with the heroic and turbulent days of the early psychoanalytic movement. We shall leave it to others to chronicle his scientific accomplishments. For our part, we cannot note his passing without a deep feeling of sadness at the loss of so warm and charming a human being, whose cultural versatility was an endless source of stimulation to others. At the dinner table, at a party, over a cup of coffee, his conversation was witty, humane and alive. His interests were boundless. He published several novels, one of which, “The Caliph of Bagdad,” was translated into English. He truly personified what one always seeks in analysts, the breadth and depth of cultural background which so enriches psychoanalysis.
To his colleagues in New York, Kilian K. Bluhm was a modest, quiet, unassuming individual with a steadfast devotion to psychoanalysis. In his own self-effacing way, he worked diligently and successfully at being a fine psychoanalyst and a devoted teacher. We shall remember him with gratitude and affection.
Miriam Francis Dunn was known to her Washington colleagues as an alert, warmly interested member of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. She was noteworthy for her ability to treat successfully many patients considered by others inaccessible to psychoanalysis. Her fine intuitive qualities were outstanding. Because of her rare abilities and because she was a warm, intelligent and useful person, Miriam Dunn's premature death will be sorely felt.
The Editors of the Bulletin extend their deepest condolences to the friends and families of our deceased colleagues.