When Dr de Monchy died, he left family, many good friends and former analysands in Holland and Sweden. When he came to Sweden with his Swedish wife and children during the war he began work which lasted eight years, during which time he built up the Swedish Society. When he arrived the Society was very small and organized training did not exist. This training was begun by him, and I remember the first technical case-seminar at which he presented the case.

René de Monchy was a warm-hearted man with strong likes and dislikes, who strove always to be fair. Passionately devoted to psychoanalysis, he always spoke of his work in Sweden with particular warmth, and always kept his links with Swedish psychoanalysis.

He was more successful than any other in making psychoanalysis acceptable to the medical profession and to the educated public. He will be remembered for many things, not the least being his intuitive understanding and the many-sidedness of his interests. Psychoanalysis has lost a true friend.