Jim Drewery 1927-2019

摘要

Jim Drewery, a Fellow of the Society and one of the pioneers of Clinical Psychology training in Britain, died in April this year. Jim began his psychology career with a first class degree at Aberdeen where he was a fencing blue. After a period of time as assistant lecturer at Queen's in Belfast, he founded the Edinburgh course with Boris Semeonoff and later became Director of Psychological Research at Dumfries. In 1974, Jim was appointed Area Clinical Psychologist for Devon where he appointed heads of department in Torbay, Plymouth and North Devon, and headed up the Exeter department himself. There, he held a joint appointment with the University, and established the training course in Clinical Psychology, first as an in-service course and later, with Jim Orford, as an MSc.