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Dr. Irwin Scott Disher, a long-time active member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, passed away on 22 September 2008 at the Montreal General Hospital at the age of eighty-three.
Following his training at the Tavistock Clinic and the British Psychoanalytic Institute
in London, he returned to Montreal in 1961 as an adult and child analyst. While in London, he was trained by Donald Winnicott, Anne Freud, Melanie Klein, and Marion Milner. He in turn brought the influences of his mentors to trainees and patients in Montreal. Dr. Disher was for many years the chairman of the Child Training Committee and a supervisory analyst in the Child Analysis Program in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society.
Dr. Disher was also a long-time member in the Department of Child Psychiatry at McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital. He was very active in postgraduate psychiatric training and became director of education at the McGill Diploma Course in Psychiatry in the 1970s. He was also a founding member of the Core Committee and the Child Psychiatry Training Committee. In addition, Dr. Disher was the clinical director and director of the Outpatient Division of the Child Psychiatry Department for many years.
Irwin Scott Disher was thus a central figure in the development of child psychiatry and child psychoanalysis at McGill and in Canada. He has been