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James Warner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jennifer Parsons
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 27 , Issue 11 , November 2003 , pp. 439
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Formerly Consultant in Children's Psychiatry and Medical Director of City of Coventry Child Guidance Service (Gulson Road Clinic)

James Warner, or Jim, as he was generally known, died suddenly at home on 19 April 2003. He was born in Coventry on 13 August 1919. On leaving school he studied ophthalmic optics with Lloyd Averns Opticians in Warwick.

Shortly after the outbreak of war, Jim was conscripted to the Forces and served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. During an air raid on Singapore in 1942 he received a shrapnel wound that caused a compound fracture of the femur. While recovering in a military hospital, Singapore fell to the Japanese and he became a prisoner of war in Singapore and later in Japan, until the War in the Far East ended in August 1945.

After demobilisation, he studied medicine at Birmingham University, graduating MB ChB in 1953. He gained the DPM in 1958 and was a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its inauguration in 1971.

In 1962, he was appointed Consultant in Children's Psychiatry in Coventry, a post he held for 18 years. He had a particular interest in family therapy based on systems theory, writing and lecturing on this subject.

In addition, Jim lectured part-time at the Lanchester Polytechnic College, now the University of Coventry.

In 1954, Jim married Amy Warner. She survives him along with four children and seven grandchildren. Jim was very much a family man who enjoyed an active retirement, pursuing a wealth of hobbies in North Devon.

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