In Memoriam

Burness E. Moore, MD, who helped refine psychoanalytic terms and concepts by bringing clarity and rigor to their definitions, passed away November 27, 2018 in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was almost 105. Dr. Moore was Physician-in-Charge of Yale Psychiatric Institute from 1943 to 1951. At that time, there were only three full time psychiatric faculty: the chairman Eugen Kahn, MD, Frederick Redlich, MD, and Dr. Moore.

Dr. Herbert D. Kleber, an alumnus of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program and an esteemed former faculty member, has died. He was 84.

Dr. Dori Laub, 81, died at Yale New Haven Hospital on Saturday, June 23, 2018. Dr. Laub arrived at Yale as a fourth year resident in 1969 and became a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in a career of almost 50 years.

Beatrix A. (Betty) Hamburg, MD, a pioneering adolescent psychiatrist and the first African-American woman graduate of Yale School of Medicine, died April 15 at her daughter’s home in Washington, DC. She was 94.

Dr. Malcolm Bowers’ legacy at Yale as a beloved teacher and mentor to trainees will be honored through a gift that will recognize outstanding accomplishments by a second-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s residency program.

Edward Bernard Klein, PhD, a former clinical faculty member with the Yale Department of Psychiatry who embraced the community psychology movement,, died on November 8. He was 85.

Dr. Stanley A. Leavy, clinical professor of psychiatry in the Medical School and Life Member of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, died on October 31, 2016, at the age of 101.

Joan K. Jackson, wife of the late Stanley Jackson, MD, a former professor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, passed away in her home August 14.

The family of the late Sidney J. Blatt, PhD, chief of the Psychology Section of the Yale Department of Psychiatry for almost 50 years, has established the Sidney J. Blatt Lectureship in his memory.