https://childrensnational.zoom.us/j/98423316990
Meeting ID: 984 2331 6990
Passcode: 3932

Program Description:

Dr. Hall, a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and psychologist, will describe how he became aware of the institutional abuse of teenagers in so-called “therapeutic schools” which are basically private prisons with no actual mental health staff.  As a result he became a vocal critic and advocate for parents to stop sending their children to these particular programs and clinicians avoid making referrals to such programs. As a result, he ‘accidentally’ became involved in Community Psychology.  

Dr. Hall will also present a psychoanalytic view of trauma, how trauma can derail a patient’s treatment and the impact of  trauma on the transference within a psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. We recommend that attendees view the three part 2024 Netflix Documentary “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping,” which is available on Netflix worldwide in multiple languages. Dr Hall is one of several experts who were interviewed for this documentary on the “troubled teen”  industry and programs like the so called “therapeutic boarding schools” that Dr. Hall became aware of in the course of his  practice and was moved to go outside the consulting room to alert the community to this traumatic abuse of teenagers that he  will discuss. 

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