Myre Sim
(2 Oct 1914 - )

Scottish psychiatrist and author in private practice in Birmingham, England, until 1975, when he moved to Canada to become a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, Ontario. He was a contributor to medical and popular journals. From 1971, he was a member of the advisory panel on neurosciences of the World Health Organization.

Science Quotes by Myre Sim (2)

I am concerned at the over-enthusiasm of unbridled reformers who initiate costly and frequently useless or even dangerous schemes. Progress is not synonymous with radicalism.
— Myre Sim
In 'Myre Sim', Gale, Contemporary Authors Online (2002).
See also:  |  Progress (117)  |  Reform (5)

Sir Adolph Abrams, the physician, in a lecture entitled Amanuensis, described a case history as an amalgam of false memories, rumour, innuendo and downright lies, and on these we are expected to make a diagnosis.
— Myre Sim
Quoted in book review, ',Ending the Cycle of Abuse', The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (May 1997), 42:4, 424.
See also:  |  Sir Adolf Abrams (2)  |  Diagnosis (45)


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