Psychoanalytic Hospital Treatment in the Twenty-First Century

ABSTRACT

This section describes the use of psychoanalysis in an inpatient setting. One child’s analysis was conducted many decades ago and the emerging adult’s analysis was completed recently at Austen Riggs, an inpatient psychiatric facility.

KEYWORDS:

• Inpatient child psychoanalytic treatment
• inpatient emerging adult psychoanalytic treatment
• child psychoanalysis
• emerging adult psychoanalysis

Notes

1. Examples include the Allen Creek Preschool, the Hanna Perkins School, the Lindsley Park Community School, the Lucy Daniels School, the Little Missionary’s Day Nursery, the New School in the Heights, the Studio School, and the West End Day School.

2. In the 1960s and 1970s, child analysis was thought of as a last resort in public psychiatric hospitals, if it was thought of at all.

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Rona Knight

Rona Knight, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at The Boston University School of Medicine. She is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute and a child and adult psychoanalyst. She is also a Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.