Detroit Psychoanalytic Society

With the passing of DR. HENRY A. REYE in his sixty-fourth year on December 6, 1950, the Detroit Psychoanalytic Society has lost the third of its charter members. The two others were Dr. Clara Happel and Dr. Norman Tufford. At the time of his death Henry Reye was the dean of Detroit psychiatrists in the length of his practice, which he had started there in 1916. Serious illness gradually curtailed and finally terminated his medical activities some time before his death. Dr. Reye was a brilliant, forceful, dynamic personality. Self-supporting from the time of his arrival in this country from Germany at the age of sixteen, he worked his way through high school. He was the first trained psychiatrist to practice in Detroit. From the beginning he was strikingly successful, both in building a large practice at a time when psychiatry was either unknown or was abhorred when it was known, and in establishing himself high in the esteem of his medical colleagues. He began teaching at the Detroit College of Medicine soon after his arrival, and in 1922 he was appointed Professor and Director of Neuropsychiatry at Wayne University Medical School, which post he held until 1946 when he was appointed Emeritus Professor. He was one of the very few psychiatrists, assigned as such, to the United States