Obituary

The International Psycho-Analytical Association has recently sustained the loss of two members. On January 12, 1922, at the age of forty, Herbert Silberer put an end to his own life. Silberer was for many years a member of the Vienna group, but in recent years he had attended its meetings only rarely. His scientific writings, particularly on the subject of dream-psychology, have received recognition in psycho-analytic literature from various quarters. Critical objections however were made to more than one unjustifiable generalization on his part. Silberers' interest obviously lay outside the domain of psycho-analysis proper. That he achieved great success in his work on the psychological understanding of so-called occult phenomena is apparent in the book which was really his principal work: Die Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Symbolik (1914). The rest of his writings were published in the Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen, 1909—1912, and in the Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, 1911—1914.

Almost simultaneously with Silberer's death the Budapest Society sustained a severe loss in the death of Dr. Elisabeth Radó-Révész. Frau Radó-Révész, the wife of Dr. Radó, Secretary of the Hungarian group, was one of the most promising younger members of the Budapest Society, while her lovable personality won her friends on all sides. She received her analytical training in Vienna and had a number of very successful cases to record in her medical practice. She was but lately married and her sudden and untimely death, following on an infectious illness, leaves a blank in her home and at the same time deprives the analytical movement and the medical profession of a colleague who was universally esteemed.