Dr Anthony Clare

Dublin - Leading Irish psychiatrist Professor Anthony Clare, who was also widely known for his broadcasting career in Ireland and Britain, has died suddenly at the age of 64.

Anthony Ward Clare (24 December 1942 – 28 October 2007) was an Irish psychiatrist well-known in the UK and Ireland as a presenter of programmes about psychiatry on BBC TV and Radio.
Clare was born in Dublin, Ireland and educated at Gonzaga College. In 1966, he graduated from University College, Dublin where he was an auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. Following initial training in psychiatry at St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, he moved to the Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, in London. Clare held a doctorate in medicine and a master's degree in philosophy, and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Author of several popular books on psychiatry, Clare held the positions of Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and Medical Director of St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin. He was also Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist at St. Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, Dublin shortly before his sudden death in Paris at the age of 64.
In the 1980s and 1990s he was the best-known psychiatrist in Britain.

He was due to retire as consultant general adult psychiatrist at St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, Dublin at the end of December.
Clare was best known for his work on British radio and television, where he presented programmes on psychiatry, such as QED and After Dark on BBC Television, and In the Psychiatrist's Chair and All in the Mind on BBC Radio.
He wrote popular books on psychiatry, including a guide on how to survive depression, which he co-wrote with Irish comedian Spike Milligan.

Anthony Clare married Jane Hogan in 1966, with whom he had seven children.

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