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Susan Sandler
December 3, 2024
I met Kathy over forty years ago as a patient at the Greenwich Institute. Over time our relationship morphed into a treasured friendship. I watched her blossom from neophyte therapist to exceptional clinician to loving friend. She was a genuinely good human being. I offered to write the obituary as tribute.
Dr. Kathleen Mays, 78, died of liver cancer on July 4, 2024 in hospice
in New York City. Esteemed psychotherapist and cherished friend, she
was a beacon of warmth and generosity, leaving desolate all those
lucky enough to cross her path.
Kathy was born in Richmond, VA. on June 7, 1946, daughter of
Gladys Hanks and Walford L. Mays, Jr. She received her B.S. in
Nursing from the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing in
1968, followed by her M.A. in Psychiatric Nursing from New York
University in 1974. In 1985 she received her Ph.D. in Developmental
Psychology from Yeshiva University in New York City.
Kathy started out in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, where she became
interested more interested in healing the mind than the body. While
working on her doctorate, she joined the Greenwich Institute for for
Psychoanalytic Studies as a staff psychotherapist. Subsequently she
took on increasingly responsible clinical staff supervisory roles at
several important New York psychotherapy institutes (Whitman,
Washington Square, Fifth Avenue, and the renowned Kenwood
Psychological Services, where both colleagues and patients held her in
high regard for her clinical excellence and loved her for her great
kindness to all. She was known there for her largesse in treating any
patient who could no longer afford to pay.
Always interested in fashion, Kathy taught introductory courses
in psychology at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her
wide-ranging clinical interests took her to consultancies in hospice
and cancer care, as well as investigations of alcoholism and eating
disorders.
Late in life she succumbed to the siren
lure of Venice. For the past fifteen years, she had spent a month in
an apartment on a canal there blissfully surrounded by art and music
and friends. Her ashes have been scattered in the lagoon.
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