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It is with deep regret that we record the death, on December 20, 1975, of Miss P.M. Traill, after a short illness.
Born in Glasgow and educated at Roedean and at Cambridge, she was among the first group of students to have been trained in Child Psychotherapy by the late Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld.
After obtaining the Diploma of the Institute of Child Psychology she worked as a therapist first in Birmingham and later at Bramling House School, Chesterfield.
She joined the staff of the I.C.P. in 1948 when it re-opened in London after war-time evacuation. In addition to her work as a child psychotherapist, she took an active part in the Training Course from the time it was reestablished in 1949 until a few months before her death. Every student who trained at the I.C.P. after the war has good reason to remember with affection and gratitude her skilled teaching, her steady support and guidance and her total reliability.
She was a founder member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and an office-bearer in a variety of capacities from its inception. But she was essentially a very private person who shunned the limelight and preferred to remain in the background, getting on with the job in hand.
Those of us who knew her well knew also the steadfastness of her friendship and of her many quiet acts of unobtrusive generosity.
Her true memorial, however, is the many hundreds of children she helped towards greater health, happiness and maturity during her 40 years as a child psychotherapist.