Long-term psychoanalytic hospital treatment of adolescents.

Approximately 0.5 per cent of adolescents require long-term hospital treatment to remedy their severe personality disorder or psychosis. This article describes the treatment processes that are used in psychoanalytic hospitals to restore more normal personality functioning. The concepts that guide these treatment processes are the resolution of early developmental conflicts, working through the transference to the institution, providing positive support, containment, and re-education.