[A psychoanalytic model at the "Menninger Clinic"]

This paper describes the psychiatric treatment of adolescents on one of the long term inpatient units of the Children's Hospital at Menninger in Topeka, Kansas. The conceptual framework for this treatment is psychoanalytic. Dr. Stamm's paper describes how hospital's "holding environment" (Winnicott, 1965) and the individual and family therapy converge to facilitate emotional growth and change. Central to psychoanalytic hospital treatment is an understanding of transference/countertransference with each adolescent.