ABSTRACT
After studying medicine at Zurich, Strassburg, and Vienna, Hans Maier joined the staff of the well-known Burghölzli Hospital in 1905. Burghölzli, founded in Switzerland in the mid-19th century, was the first mental hospital to accept psychoanalysis as a modality of treatment. Therapeutic work programs, as well as the concept of the halfway house, were introduced there. Nearby, the first residential treatment center in the field of child psychiatry was established in 1920. In fact, the entire child guidance movement, in an indirect way, was influenced by the hospital and the intellectual climate it created (Mora, 1975). See Figure 4.1.
