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CFP 3(1):125-127 (2013)

Douglas Haldane MBE (1926-2012)

Authors: Una McCluskey, Christopher Clulow PhD

Una McCluskey

Worked as a senior lecturer in social work at the University of York for many years. Early in her career she worked with Douglas Haldane in the department of child and family psychiatry in Fife. Douglas and she published many articles together on the dynamics of couples, organisations, and families. She now has a part time affiliation at York University as a Senior Research Fellow but works mainly in a private capacity with professional caregivers developing a model of psychotherapeutic practice which she has called Goal-Corrected Exploratory Psychotherapy. She is actively engaged in training professionals in this method and is involved in research. She has written extensively on working with individuals, couples, families, and groups and her book To Be Met As A Person, the Dynamics of Attachment in Therapeutic Encounters is now on its second print run. She regularly presents her work at the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

Christopher Clulow PhD

Senior Fellow of Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London, where he practices as a visiting lecturer and researcher. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. His most recent edited publication, Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, was published by Karnac Books in 2009. He is a founding member of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors, an international editorial consultant for the journal , and a member of the Editorial Board for He is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, Dartington, and a registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council. He maintains a private clinical and training practice from his home in St Albans.

Abstract

Douglas Haldane, who has died aged eighty-six, was a pioneering child and family psychiatrist whose influence extended well beyond his native Scotland. His modest and collegiate manner, combined with a breadth of vision and determined purpose, enabled him to introduce organisational and service changes that others would have found difficult. A gifted clinician, educator, and supporter of colleagues, he endeared himself to those who knew and worked with him.

Born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, he was educated locally before attending Dumbarton and Dumfries Academies. He went to Edinburgh University in 1943, graduating in 1948 with MB ChB, and as one of the first doctors to qualify following the inception of the National Health Service. He took up a range of positions following qualification, including stints as an obstetrics house surgeon at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh and Cresswell Maternity Hospital in Dumfries, before his two years' national service as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Following this period of service, he worked as a registrar at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, lectured on psychiatry for the Royal College of