Frederick Paterson Haldane

FREDERICK P A TERSON HALDANE, ~ f o r m e r l y Consultant Psychiatrist, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Ricky Haldane, for many years Consultant Psychiatrist at the West Middlesex Hospital, died on 15 September 1983 at the age of 71. He qualified MB, ChB in 1936 at the University of Glasgow, having previously been educated at Edinburgh Academy. He passed his DPM (Eng) in 1939 and was elected Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1971. He had taken a keen interest in the foundation ofthe College. Professionally he started his psychiatry as Assistant Physician under Dr R. Strom-Olsen at Runwell Hospital in Essex in 1937, and in 1945 was appointed Deputy Physician Superintendent of Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital, Gart- navel. After a year he joined the army and saw much over- seas service as Specialist Psychiatrist, becoming a temporary Lieutenant Colonel as Officer commanding a Military Psychiatric Hospital and adviser in psychiatry to GHQ Central Mediterranean Forces. On returning to civilian life after a brief spell at Menston Hospital near Leeds, he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at West Middlesex Hospital in August 1948. His main interests lay in the field of psychopathology and psychotherapy, and this was reflected in the way that he built up the unit at the West Middlesex Hospital from an old observation ward into a unit with strong psychotherapy leanings. He played a large part in its conversion to a district general hospital psychiatric unit, now serving a catchment area. On his retirement in 1977 he was appointed Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the West Middlesex University Hospital. He had a keen sense of humour and was deeply involved in all the activities of the hospital, where his kindness and friendliness to all his colleagues were deeply appreciated. He was also unstinting in the care which he gave to his patients. Ricky Haldane is survived by a wife and two sons, as well by a son and daughter of a previous marriage.

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