Dora Black obituary

World-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist and co-author of the seminal book When Father Kills MotherDora Black, who has died aged 89 of cancer, was a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist who voiced a much-needed refrain, “but what about the children?”, in situations where young people’s emotional needs were not being considered. She became an international expert in helping children where one parent, nearly always the father, had killed the other.Dora began to re