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Dr. Noel Hardcastle, who was a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and Physician to the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis, died after a short illness on 17 May, 1954, at Bishop's Stortford, where he had established himself in psycho-analytic and psychiatric practice.
Dr. Hardcastle's record of neurologic and psychiatric appointments suggests that his psychopathological experience must already have been of high standard in the late twenties. It was then that he decided to study the Child Guidance Services in the United States; spending in all three years there. Back in England, with a first-hand account of this growing branch of psychiatric practice and research, he founded and directed the Fulham Child Guidance Clinic, and, as a keen thinker and observer, found there a fertile field for his gift of searching into the conflicts of childhood and adolescence. But he also felt that he had to look for what was not on the surface and could not be discerned without employing the method of psycho-analysis. Uncompromising as he was, he underwent a thorough personal analysis and training at the London Institute of Psycho-Analysis. In spite of his age he insisted on seeing it through, and qualified just before World War II. As he had done in the First World War, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving as a psychiatric specialist. By his rather sudden death a long search and struggle for accomplishment has come to an end.
His devotion to the science of psycho-analysis was honest and deep; receptive and imaginative, he constantly found stimulation in our literature, in his patients, and in the meetings of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He married Miss Kitty Duguid, who survives him with three children.