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Guide to Psychiatry: Myre Sim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brian O'Shea
Brian O'Shea*
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Newcastle Hospital, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
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Myre Sim, who was born in Edinburgh in 1915 and now lives in self-imposed exile in Victoria, British Columbia, is not known for meekness. He still has strong views on issues such as abortion and AIDS, and his ability to get his thoughts into print has hardly diminished with increasing age. The strength of his opinions was graphically illustrated in a recent autobiographical sketch in the Psychiatric Bulletin (Sim, 1993). This Jew, who possessed “a better than average knowledge of … Holy Writ” by the time he was 16 years old, recalled with pleasure his laying a trap for the late Eliot Slater, whose “eugenic theories … had endeared [Slater] to the Hitler regime”. No wonder so many workers felt it difficult to engage in post-war genetic research.

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Books Reconsidered
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 565 - 566
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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