Obituary Notice: Gordon Stewart Prince

Dr Gordon Prince died in August, 1985. He had been suffering from a chest illness for some time, and although his friends knew about this his death nevertheless came as a shock.

He qualified very young in medicine from Trinity College, Dublin and quickly became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. After extending his qualifications and his experience he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in order to make his contribution to the war then raging, and it was in a military hospital, before his posting to India, that he met his future wife, Wendy, who was in the Military Nursing Service. Both were in India when the war ended and they stayed on through the transition to Independence. Partly through the influence of E. A. Bennet, a visiting lecturer at Trinity who later became eminent in the Jungian world, Gordon had become interested in psychiatry, and he worked as a psychiatrist both in the army and on his return to civilian life, studying at the Maudsley Hospital, where he developed his interest in working with children. He was particularly known for his ability to communicate with adolescents in therapy.

He then became a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King's College Hospital, maintaining an analytic approach which he shared with colleagues in the parallel, psychoanalytic tradition. Later he extended this interest, going into psychoanalysis and bringing from this experience many lively and valuable insights to the Society of Analytical Psychology. Gordon was a long-standing member of the Society and contributed much to the life of the Society and to the representation of analytical psychology in a wider world. He read a number of papers to the Society, including some vivid clinical presentations to the Children's Section. He also became a training analyst and many members had benefited from his seminars and his supervision.

Outside the Society he lectured and taught extensively. For some years he was a lecturer in the Applied Social St