During and after World War II, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[1] In 1941, he participated in the examination of the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess, who had been captured in Scotland during an unsuccessful peace mission.
[2] Abse was known for his work in group therapy[1] and hysteria, and contributed to the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
[3] It was said that his younger brother Leo got his habit of Freudian allusion in his speeches from Wilfred.
Feelings about early figures from childhood are aroused and, through transference, fixed on the group leader (or conductor).