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Dr. Ives Hendrick, professor emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard University and president of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1953 and 1954, died on May 28, 1972.
After receiving his medical degree at Yale in 1925, he studied at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Berlin. He joined the psychiatry department of the Harvard Medical School in 1930 and served as Director of Education at the Massachusetts Mental
Health Center (Boston Psychopathic Hospital) from 1949 to 1956, and as Director of its Harvard Teaching Unit from 1949 to 1964. He was engaged in the practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis from 1930 until his retirement a few years ago.
Ives Hendrick often mentioned that teaching was his greatest source of pride, and he taught in many places: general hospitals, social work schools, residency programs, and at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. But it was the Harvard Teaching Unit at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital to which he devoted most of his time, teaching psychiatry to medical students
His clinical work was a rare combination of active, inquisitive thoroughness, in the tradition of university medicine, and an extraordinary intuition. He combined the methods of medical psychology with those of psychoanalysis. For him, psychoanalysis was the medical attitude brought to the mind and was, therefore, fundamentally an empirical study. He was unusually adept at separating psychoanalytic facts and ideas.
The author of numerous papers, many of them on ego development, Ives Hendrick also wrote two books, Facts and Theories of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatric Education Today, published in 1965. He continued to write and to teach despite ill health.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James Rumsey and Mrs. Robert Rusnak. His students, colleagues, and friends will long remember him for his many accomplishments and ideals.