Obituary: Dr. Cathy Urwin, born 13 September 1949, died 2 June 2012

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Presents an obituary of Dr. Cathy Urwin (1949-2012). Cathy Urwin, originally a developmental psychology researcher, who trained and worked as a child psychotherapist and was, for a time, book review editor for this journal, died, after a short illness, on 2 June 2012. Her clinical acumen, her passion for research and for psychoanalysis and her extraordinary energy in supporting and developing child psychotherapists in training will be sorely missed. Cathy’s research work in developmental psychology which included her doctoral thesis on the development of communication and language in blind babies. Cathy Urwin presented and published widely. She had recently spent a term with researchers in Norway. She also worked with an international group who met regularly to discuss clinical material from autistic patients and was involved in a number of collaborative research projects. Cathy’s sudden, untimely death occurred at a particularly creative and productive time in her life. She was working indomitably and enthusiastically on a number of projects, researching, writing, teaching and working clinically, loved nothing better than working in groups and teams with others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)