Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy: Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment

Anita G. Schmukler, D.O., is training and supervising analyst, and supervisor in child analysis at the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis. An active clinician for both adults and children and an esteemed lecturer, she is on the faculties of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education associated with New York University, the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Cincinnati Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is clinical associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schmukler has published widely and has edited “Saying Goodbye: A Casebook on Termination in Child Analysis and Therapy.”

Paula Atkeson, Ph.D., is training and supervising analyst and child supervisor in the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the Baltimore Washington Institute and she taught at the Clinical Social Work Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Atkeson has consulted in several schools in the area and she participated in the founding of the Jenny Waelder Hall Center for Children.

Kirsten Dahl, Ph.D., is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and the chair of their Child Analytic Training Program.

Helene Keable, M.D., is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine. She maintains a private practice in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York, NY.

Denia Barrett, M.S.W., received her training in child and adolescent psychoanalysis at the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development in Cleveland, Ohio. She served as editor-in-chief of the Center’s journal, Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and Applied from 1996 to 2010 and is on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

Moisy Shopper, M.D., is clinical professor emeritus of child psychiatry and pediatrics at St. Louis University School of Medicine. He is a training and supervising analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute specializing in child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysis.