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The South Western Ontario Psychoanalytic Society has lost one of its founding members. John Lohrenz died on Saturday, 8 February 2014.
John was born in Mennon, Saskatoon, studied medicine at the University of Manitoba, and graduated from there in 1948 to be a general practitioner in Altona, Manitoba, until 1957. He and his wife and family moved to Montreal in 1957, where he trained at McGill in psychiatry. He was chief resident at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and went on to be director of the Student Mental Health Unit of McGill University. He undertook psychoanalytic training and was elected an associate member of the Canadian in 1963 and a full member in 1965.
He then went on to become a supervising and training analyst, presenting his training paper to the Montreal QE in December 1976 and was elected to the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1977. At this point he moved to London, Ontario, where he was director of Out Patient services at St Joseph's Hospital, director of the Residency Program, and director of Psychotherapy Training, as well as being an associate professor of psychiatry. He joined the Toronto Society and the Toronto Institute in 1977.
He was one of the founding members of SWOPS in 1982 and was active in the society and on the executive for many years. He left the hospital in 1990 (mandatory retirement) and continued his private practice in psychoanalysis and supervision for many more years.