Milton Senn was director of Yale's Child Study Center, where he pioneered the use of psychoanalysis in pediatric practice.
Dr. Milton J. E. Senn (1902—June 8, 1990) was born in Milwaukee and earned his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1925. After a stint at Washington University in St. Louis, he joined Cornell University Medical College in 1933, and became director of New York Hospital's Institute for Child Development in 1939. He is most remembered as the director of Yale University's Child Study Center (1948-1966), which he turned into a full-fledged child psychiatry department, one of the first in the country.
Milton J. E. Senn appears in the following:
The Art and Science of Growing Up in America
Saturday, January 12, 1952
Dr. Milton J.E. Sen lectures on "The Art and Science of Growing up In America".
WNYC archives id: 61951
The Art and Science of Growing Up
Wednesday, January 09, 1952
Should children be considered distinct individuals?
