The Use of Psychoanalytic Understanding in Educational Settings

Application of Psychodynamic Thinking in the Practice of School Psychology

“…However, as I noted in an early article (Warshaw, 1989), symptomatic of a widespread disenchantment with a mental health model as applied to work in schools, was a parting of ways between mainstream school psychology and psychoanalytically rooted mental health approaches. Jack Bardon (1983) in a major address before the American Psychological Association described a "recreated professional specialty concerned with the application of psychology to education" (p. 185).…”