Tributes

Sally D. Comer, MSW, PhD (1945 - 2014)

It is with a heavy heart that I must write to report the passing of our dear friend and esteemed colleague Dr. Sally D. Comer, MSW, PhD, on September 24, 2014.

Sally was a highly respected and admired clinician, teacher, mentor, role model and leader — and the psychoanalytic and social work community here feels her loss very deeply.

She contributed her warm and energetic leadership to AAPCSW, chairing the student volunteers committee for the 2013 national conference in Durham, NC, and leading an outreach effort that made it possible for many more students and young professionals to get involved in the conference. She also chaired an outstanding panel, “Under One Tent: Mindfulness, EMDR, CBT, and Psychoanalytic Treatments.”

Sally and her husband, Sid, have been long-standing members of our psychoanalytic community. Sally's influence has been significant within the social work community, both through the NCSCSW, AAPCSW, and the UNC School of Social Work. As a member of PECC's Outreach Committee, she maintained a vital link with UNC mentoring many who became PECC students. In recent years, her contribution as a faculty member emerged as she contributed her own research in her course on Attachment and Psychoanalysis. We are all poorer today with her absence, and we honor Sally's spirit and her passion for psychoanalysis in our memories of her.

~ Nancy Perault, Chapel Hill, NC

From North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society and Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas:

Dear Society Members, PECC Faculty and Students,

We are saddened by the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Sally Comer who died peacefully Wednesday and extend our deepest sympathy to her husband, Sid Comer, her family, close friends, colleagues and patients.

For those of us who have known Sally and worked closely with her, we will remember her warmth, her sparkle and remarkable energy, and her ambition both in her academic pursuits and as the Director of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program of PECC from 2009 to 2013. Sally was a graduate of the Advanced Curriculum of the PPSC (a predecessor of the PECC) and of Smith College PhD program.

Here is a link to the notice in the N & O: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?n=sally-d comer&pid=172569219&fhid=5959

Yours,
~ Steve Bennett, PECC Director
~ Rex Moody, NC Psychoanalytic Society President