Otto Allen Will Jr.
{{short description|American physician}}
Otto Allen Will Jr. (April 26, 1910 – November 17, 1993{{cite news |title=Otto Allen Will Jr., 83, Psychoanalyst, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/22/obituaries/otto-allen-will-jr-83-psychoanalyst-is-dead.html | work=The New York Times | date=November 22, 1993}}) was an American psychiatrist whose work in psychoanalysis focused on treatment of patients with schizophrenia{{cite book |title=Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (3rd edition), vol. 2 |author=H.I. Kaplan |author2=A.M. Freedman |publisher=William and Walkins |location=Baltimore/London |year=1980 |pages=1217 |isbn=0-683-03357-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/comprehensivetex0000unse }} using intensive psychotherapy. He is also credited for his advancement of attachment theory{{cite book |title= Attachment and the Therapeutic Process: Essays in Honor of Otto Allen Will, Jr. |author=D.P. Schwartz |author2=J.L. Sacksteder |publisher=International Universities Press |year=1980 |pages=378 |isbn=978-0-8236-0447-0}} and milieu therapy.{{cite book|last1=Gunderson|first1=J.G.|last2=Will|first2=O.A.|last3=Mosher|first3=L.R.|title=Principles and practice of milieu therapy|date=1983|publisher=Jason Aronson Preshh|location=New York, NY, USA|isbn=978-0876684399|oclc=7575195 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7575195}}
Training
Will received his medical degree from Stanford University, School of Medicine. After his residency and service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he received post-doctorate training at Washington School of Psychiatry and the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Through this training he joined the Interpersonal psychoanalysis movement founded by Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and others.
Professional life
He served as Director of Psychotherapy at Chestnut Lodge from 1954 to 1967. From Chestnut Lodge, he was hired as Medical Director for the Austen Riggs Center.{{cite journal |author=M.G. Thompson |author2=S. Thompson |title=Interview with Dr. Otto Allen Will, Jr. |journal=Contemporary Psychoanalysis |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=289–304 |year=1988 |doi=10.1080/00107530.1998.10746363 |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=cps.034.0289a|url-access=subscription }} During his work at both institution he establish an international reputation for his work with schizophrenic patients using intensive psychotherapy instead of biological or psychopharmacological treatments.{{cite journal |author=O.A. Will |title=Process, Psychotherapy, and Schizophrenia |journal=Psychotherapy of the Psychoses |editor=A. Burton |pages=10–42 |year=1961 |location= New York |publisher=Basic Books|doi=10.1037/10643-001 }}{{cite journal |author=O.A. Will |title=Schizophrenia and the Psychotherapeutic Field.) |journal= Contemporary Psychoanalysis |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=1–29 |year=1964|doi=10.1080/00107530.1964.10745075 }}
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Category:American psychiatrists
Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II
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