ENELOW, Allen J. 1922-2005

(Allen Jay Enelow)

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born January 15, 1922, in Pittsburgh, PA; died July 8, 2005, in Santa Barbara, CA. Psychiatrist, educator, and author. Enelow was a professor and practicing psychiatrist who was known for emphasizing the importance of psychological techniques used by physicians while treating their patients. He completed his undergraduate work at West Virginia University in 1942, followed by a medical degree two years later from the University of Louisville. After serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps for two years, he went into private practice. He later entered academia when he joined the University of Southern California faculty in 1960. From 1967 to 1972, he was a professor and chair of the department of psychiatry he helped found at Michigan State University. He then taught at the University of the Pacific during the mid-1970s and headed the department of psychiatry at the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco from 1972 to 1980. Enelow next held a post at the University of California at San Francisco, where he was named professor of clinical psychiatry in 1977. He left San Francisco in 1982, moving to the University of Southern California, where he taught clinical psychiatry until his 1989 retirement from academia. Enelow also had private practices in Beverly Hills and, beginning in 1992, Santa Barbara. One of the chief focuses of Enelow's work was the study of how medical doctors interact with their patients. He wrote on this topic in the cowritten books Psychiatry in the Practice of Medicine (1966) and Interviewing and Patient Care (1972; fourth edition, 1996). He was also the author of Elements of Psychotherapy (1977) and edited other books on psychiatry and medicine.

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2005, p. B11.