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Dane G. Prugh, MD, a well-respected child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, with training and experience in pediatrics, who pioneered in demonstrating the necessity of

Her research indicated that cheerful and familiar hospital stays for children are shorter and reduce difficulties adapting to the hospital when physical surroundings. Related studies have shown that children who have the support of family members during prolonged hospitalizations are less likely to suffer from learning problems and delinquency later on.

She is sometimes cited as a leader in developing play therapy, and of affirmative action at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a school which annually names a recipient for the Dane Prugh Teaching Award.

Dane Prugh had done psychiatry in the Children’s Medical Center in Brookline, then ran the inpatient unit at Rochester for a number of years. Dane argued that the problem was not so much the ineffectiveness of treatment but the inability of finding placements for the children back in the community when they were ready to leave so that the gains in mental health they had made during treatment rapidly dissipated when they became chronically hospitalized. Dane later left for Colorado.

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This is a list of notable figures who have been involved in the history of Psychiatry.
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