Avis M. Dry

Avis Mary Dry was a clinical psychologist and an author on the psychology of Carl Jung.

Biography

Although British by birth, she spent much of her early life in New Zealand after her parents emigrated when she was five. Dry obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She returned to England in 1956, where she obtained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Leeds. Dry worked briefly as a psychologist at Denby Hospital in Wales, before she took a research psychology post at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1976, she accepted a position as head of Leeds MIND, where she remained until 1996.
Dry died on 26 January 2007.