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  • Ian Martin died on 7 November 2006 after a long illness

  • In his later postretirement years he had become almost a recluse, living in Darlington, a single man with but a housekeeper to see to his needs

  • After a spell of National Service during which he was posted to Netley Hospital, the Army psychiatric unit in Southampton, he obtained a post in Leeds, obtaining his DPM and FRCPsych in 1978 and working with Professor Max Hamilton, before obtaining a consultant post at Darlington Memorial Hospital

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Ian Charles Atichison Martin

Ian Martin died on 7 November 2006 after a long illness. In his later postretirement years he had become almost a recluse, living in Darlington, a single man with but a housekeeper to see to his needs. After a spell of National Service during which he was posted to Netley Hospital, the Army psychiatric unit in Southampton, he obtained a post in Leeds, obtaining his DPM and FRCPsych in 1978 and working with Professor Max Hamilton, before obtaining a consultant post at Darlington Memorial Hospital He was a founder member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1971, and later acquired the certificate of the Society of Medical and Dental Hypnotists. I contacted No Panic, an organisation for people with anxiety problems, to ask for feedback from members on self-help guides for anxiety. Eleven members of the organisation completed the exercise With such a small sample size, their responses might not be indicative of the population as a whole, but they provide initial insights into the perception of self-help materials by people with anxiety disorders. Of the 11 readers, 9 believed that ‘No self-help guides are perfect, but I can gain something new

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