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Dr. Hassan Azim, a distinguished training analyst of the Western Branch (WCPSI), passed away peacefully in Victoria, BC, where he moved to be close to family toward the end of his life. Dr. Azim's sixty-year career as an analyst spanned the country, beginning in Montreal in 1961 when he began his training analysis and became the first analytic candidate in Canada, and continuing through Edmonton and Vancouver where he made significant contributions to psychoanalytic psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
In addition to teaching and supervising psychoanalytic candidates and psychoanalytic psychotherapists through the Western Branch, Dr. Azim was an honorary professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry, teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy and providing valuable support to other UBC faculty members in their supervisory work. His lectures were prized by residents and candidates for the accessible way in which he shared his clinical knowledge and encouraged creative and critical reflection. More recently, Dr. Azim continued his teaching by sharing his expertise through the China America Psychoanalytic Alliance.
Dr. Azim has an outstanding record of rich clinical and academic experience, expertise, and accomplishment beginning in Cairo where he was one of the first psychiatrists in Egypt. Dr. Azim studied medicine in English at the American University where he also completed a Bachelor of Education. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 1955 and continued through many distinguished clinical appointments and scholarly contributions, including having a graduate award named in his honour.
After having run group psychotherapy programs at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, Dr. Azim moved to Edmonton, where he led one of the most productive Canadian centers for psychotherapy research, producing more than two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles. In 1991 Dr. Azim published the Quality of Object Relations Scale, an interview-based assessment procedure that has been cru