Patrick de Maré

Patrick Baltzar de Maré (also De Mare, de Mare, /də ˈmɛər/)(27 January 1916 – 17 February 2008) was a British consultant psychotherapist with a special interest in group psychotherapy.

After qualifying in 1941, de Mare enlisted, in 1942, in the Royal Army Medical Corps and trained in Army psychiatry. He ran an Exhaustion Centre during the Second World War. Near the end of war, he returned to Northfield Hospital, where he carried out a series of experiments with Sigmund Foulkes and Tom Main on dealing with war trauma. After the war, de Maré became a consultant psychotherapist and expanded his practice into large group therapy. In 1972, he published Perspectives in Group Psychotherapy and, in 1974, and he published Introduction to Group Treatment in Psychiatry with Lionel Kreeger. De Maré died from pneumonia in 2008 at the age of 92.