Friend, supporter, and teacher, Milton J.E. Senn has been elected to Honorary Membership in the American. During his long and distinguished career, Dr. Senn has been known for his own significant contributions as well as his encouragement of others who themselves have become important to the field of psychoanalysis.

Although Dr. Senn has received numerous awards and honors and held countless positions of leadership (including Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of High Meadows, the only Connecticut State Institute for emotionally disturbed, psychotic and severely depressed children), he is above all an innovator.

In the 40 s, he introduced Marianne Kris as consultant to childcare programs at New York Hospital and initiated a training program for pediatricians which integrated psychoanalytic concepts of child development.

Then, as Director of the Yale Child Study Center in 1948, he invited Ernest Kris to join him in starting a psychoanalytic longitudinal study including development. Working with him in this study were Marianne Kris, Albert Solnit, John McDivett, Grace Abbat and Samuel Ritvo.

At the same time, as Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Yale, he applied psychoanalysis to the care of sick children.

And, in his close association with Anna Freud, he was able to help her to gain foundation support for the Hamstead Center.

In his heartfelt endorsement, Sam Ritvo capsulized what many feel when he said, “Milton Senn has been a good friend and proponent of psychoanalysis for nearly half a century, a leader in the application of psychoanalysis to all aspects of child life, and to the psychoanalytic education of teachers, social workers, psychologists, and physicians.”