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It is with deep sorrow that I report the death of our colleague, Max David Mayer.
Dr. Mayer began his career as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics but he soon become interested in psychoanalysis and thereafter combined the two specialties in his research and treatment of gynecological cases. He was mainly interested in gynecological problems which bordered on neuroses. He was one of the few who pioneered in psychosomatic medicine and he utilized fully the opportunities for clinical research and study of the psychological implications in the female genital functioning, in the cases at his clinic in Mount Sinai Hospital. He thus made valuable contributions to both psychoanalysis and gynecology.
Dr. Mayer's unique work was fully recognized by his colleagues and by the young men around him whose approach he endeavored to broaden. He successfully impressed upon them the frequent necessity of treating the organic disturbances of women who sought help for so-called female ailments, as emotional problems involving the entire personality.
He devoted a great deal of time as a consultant to the patients of Hillside Hospital, was enthusiastic in aiding the development of that institution and faithfully attended their clinical conferences.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1915 and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1917. In 1923, when he went to Vienna for further study, where he had his personal analysis.
His colleagues and friends in both the gynecological and psychiatric fields will always remember him for his calm, convincing reason and logic and the courage with which he fought for what he believed in, regardless of possible financial loss or personal difficulties. He was genial and modest—a man of ready wit, able to see the comic aspects of life and always willing to entertain his friends with a good story.
His wife, Eleanor S. Mayer, and children, Barbara and David Llewellyn, who mourn his loss, are joined by countless frie