Karen Horney Clinic

The comprehensive and varied programs of the Karen Horney Clinic are providing treatment to our patients as well as services or our doctors and candidates in training. Psychoanalysis, community services, candidate training, pilot projects, and research are being conducted at the Clinic.

Our main objective is treatment in individual psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic treatment for groups, families, the retarded, married couples, the creative, those with homosexual problems, the aged, unwed mothers, the obese, and adolescents are other programs continuing in the Clinic.

This past year a new department was added. The Langbert Pavilion has been completed and houses the Day Care Center for the total psychoanalytic treatment of selected schizophrenic patients. This beautiful setting is well suited to our needs, and the programs being carried out will hopefully justify all of our efforts, expense and enthusiasm. The realization of the day care center this year was due to the combined efforts of all the members of the Medical Staff and Lay Board who have worked diligently for this project since 1965.

We hope that this program will provide us with a marvelous opportunity for clinical research and training in the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia. This is the first time that Horney's psychoanalytic approach will be utilized in a full-time day care setting.

In 1965, Dr. Oscar Diamond, Director of Manhattan State Hospital, reached an agreement with the Karen Horney Clinic for a joint effort of our two organizations to work together in this project. In addition, further plans for training, teaching, and additional mutual beneficial relationships between our two institutions are considered for the future.

Dr. Jack Rubins is the Physician-in-Charge of the day care center program. The medical staff consists of Drs. Bernath, Del Rey, Helen DeRosis, Hirsh, Kornreich, Rosen, and Ruckcr. In addition, there are two social workers, a psychologist, a registered psychiatric nurse, and recreat