Obituary Notices: K. W. Bash

On february 11, 1986, we lost a person whose wide-ranging mind enabled him to make important contributions not only to analytical psychology but also to psychopathology, to psychiatric epidemiology and to Rorschach studies and research.

K. W. Bash was born in Canada on August 21, 1913. He was educated in Detroit and began a medical training in Toronto in 1934, changing two years later to psychology. Attracted by the theories of C. G. Jung, he went to Switzerland in 1938, where he began his medical studies anew and, at the same time, underwent a training analysis with C. A. Meier.

In 1958, after a period in Zürich during which he had become senior consultant at the psychiatric hospitals at Winterthur and Wil, he left Switzerland to work as a World Health Organisation adviser in several countries in North Africa, the Near East and the Middle East. It was while acting as senior adviser in Iran that he began his work on psychiatric epidemiology. He had a deep affection for Iran and its peoples, and was familiar not only with its fine arts and literature but also with its language, which he could both speak and write. He considered that his time in Iran was the happiest in his life, and he remained in touch with many Iranian friends.

On his return from Iran in 1964, and until his retirement in 1978, he worked at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Bern, becoming a vice-director in 1966 and associate professor in 1972. He was also a member of the Curatorium of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich from 1954 to 1963, where he lectured frequently on psychopathology, and from 1949 to 1980 was a member of the Board of Directors and of the Editorial Committee of the Swiss Psychological Association. He also maintained a private practice, though from 1978 onwards he concentrated more on training analyses. He was also a founder member of the International Rorschach Association, and its President from 1981 onwards. In all, he published about 100 papers, and in 1955 appeared his Textb