Bernard Baruch was Brunel University's consultant psychiatrist from 1973 to 1996, providing support and advice to many staff and students. He also took responsibility for the co-ordination and training of the University's counsellors. He was born in Hamburg, but emigrated to Liverpool in 1930. He read medicine, first at Liverpool University and then at Queen's University, Ontario (where he had been sent in 1940 as an 'enemy alien'). After the war Dr Baruch practised psychiatric medicine at the Maudsley Hospital, St Bernard's and Ashford Hospitals and several other institutions. He became a founder member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was later elected Fellow. He trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and qualified as an analyst in 1958.
MUniv - July 1998
