Dr Zaïda Hall DM, FRCP, FRCPsych Formerly Consultant in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Southampton University and Royal South Hants Hospital

Abstract

![Figure][1] Zaida Hall, who died recently at the age of 87, became the first female consultant psychiatrist in the University of Southampton in 1971. Together with her colleague and friend, Pamela Ashurst, she built up the Psychotherapy Department, housed initially in a portakabin. It