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Gordon WARME Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for Gordon WARME
7 Entries
Mikhail Epelbaum
June 5, 2024
In the beginning of my psychiatric training, 1982, I wanted to become a psychoanalyst. I approached Gordon Warme as he was a training psychoanalyst and worked with him for 5 years. As the analysis progressed, I learned about myself. Eventually, my intellectual interests, language skills, and personal background led me to practice in a different branch of psychiatry. Four decades later, this was a correct decision. I am immensely grateful to Dr Warme for sharing with me the tools that influenced my entire life - both professional and personal aspects of it (as if they could be separated).
Anne
May 25, 2024
Dr Warme was my analyst during his training days at Menninger. He showed me the way to becoming a functional adult and eventually a physician. Decades later we became friends and corespondents and he again gave me the courage to live honestly. An amazing mind, an amazing human; I´m glad to have come across this obituary and to have known him.
Sameer
November 22, 2023
Gordon was a mentor to me during my first year residency in psychiatry at UofT. He was an amazing man and one of only a few real teachers and thinkers there. I have all his books and he was a great inspiration for me in my career. I still remember a grand rounds he gave titled "Why Pluto is a planet and why Schizophrenia is not a disease". We had some deep conversations and he was a true confidante to me at that time and I was lucky to meet him.
Kathleen Byers
August 11, 2023
My condolences for Gordon Warme.
I didn't know Gordon Warme personally. Our paths crossed literally on Queen Street where Gordon asked if I would help him cross the street.
He said, "Would you mind holding my hand?"
As we strolled across the road it was the first time I'd met an actual psychiatrist.
Gordon shared that he had worked at CAMH for over 40 years, emphasizing how he didn't like what they had done to that place.
His main concern was prescription drugs and the over-medication of people with mental illness.
Gordon said he could send me this book if I was interested.
Thank you, I received the one titled Daggers of the Mind - Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Illness.
Now I am intrigued to read all of his other books.
Goodbye Gordon it was lovely to know you.
Kathleen Byers - Crossing Guard
Jonathan
June 19, 2023
Dr. W and I used to hit up this pizza joint called Dante´s Inferno Paninoteca at Davenport and Ossington (now closed) where I'd grill him on psychiatric issues, his writing or anything he said in an interview. I ended up doing a documentary film on him which would've been completed sooner, but for the public health closures and his safety. We always had something to talk about and I'll miss the calls and getting random book chapters from him. I'll miss sharing my thoughts and creations with him. I'm terribly grateful our paths crossed and for his patience as I put the film together, trying different things and adding others. Take care Gordon, you are missed.
Suki Falkner
June 17, 2023
I was a member of the first class of the Child Psychoanalytic Programme, and while several people worked hard to bring it into being, I think it is fair to say that Gordon was indispensable. He really went to bat for it, and without him, it would not have happened, at least at that time.
Ray Freebury
June 17, 2023
I remember how Gordon enjoyed the brots at a market place in Lubeck Germany. We were both attending the first meeting of the International Psyhoanalytic Association in Germany after WW2. He took pride and pleasure in introducing my wife and I to the pleasures of German sausages.
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