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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999;56:669-670.

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On January 2, 1999, Louis Jolyon ("Jolly") West, former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), died of a rapidly advancing malignant tumor.

Figure appears in full text version. Louis Jolyon West, MD

Born in 1924 in Brooklyn, NY, of immigrant Russian-Jewish parents, he grew up in poverty in Madison, Wis. Characteristic of children of recent immigrants, he strove to obtain an education. Entering the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at the age of 17 years, he was determined to fight against fascism in World War II. He enlisted in the US Army and was sent to the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in the Army Specialized Training Program, and then to the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, from which he graduated in 1948. After a year of internship in internal medicine, he served a 3-year residency in psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic at . . . [Full Text of this Article]