A tribute to Roy Muir

Abstract

In June 2002, Dr Roy Muir died in Christchurch after a short illness. I was fortunate to know him for the last nine months of his life, benefiting from his training as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Within these areas, Roy had a special interest in, and vast experience and knowledge of, child and adolescent psychiatry,with a particular focus on the mother-infant pair. Those of us here in Christchurch who sought his expertise felt privileged to have a man of his professional standing in our psychiatric/psychotherapeutic community. When he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, on top of his existing Parkinson's Disease, the blow could not have felt more cruel.