Abstract

![Figure][1] Jim and Julia Birley at one of the meetings of the Network of Reformers in Psychiatry, Czech Republic, 1995. Forty years ago a group of psychiatrists training at the Maudsley Hospital were discussing the attributes of a good psychiatrist. They came to some sort of soggy

Highlights

  • Satkunam was a gentle man of great personal integrity and honesty

  • I first met Satkunam when I returned to Sri Lanka to work as a child psychiatrist at the University of Colombo in 1978

  • They came to some sort of soggy consensus, but decided to personalise it by asking each member Jim and Julia Birley at one of the to note down which meetings of the Network of Reformers psychiatrist they would in Psychiatry, Czech Republic, 1995. choose to be referred to if they became mentally ill

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Introduction

Satkunam was a gentle man of great personal integrity and honesty. He loved people and their company and could surprise with his quiet but at times wicked sense of humour. Forty years ago a group of psychiatrists training at the Maudsley Hospital were discussing the attributes of a good psychiatrist.

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