PTRC’ s Horniman Circle Therapy Centre is located in the busy Fort area of South Mumbai. The Centre was officially inaugurated on April 30, 2005, at a small, informal function attended by friends, well-wishers, faculty and staff and students.

The Centre’s aim is to help and support children, parents and adults with a range of emotional difficulties. A team of child psychotherapists ( and adult psychoanalysts ) work together here, providing consultations, psychoanalytic and psycho-educational assessments, and psychotherapeutic treatment – brief or long-term (intensive and non-intensive). The scope of the Centre’s work, which began in June 2005, includes understanding difficulties in emotional relationships, helping to cope with bereavement, child abuse, communication and autistic disorders, learning disabilities, behavioural problems, eating disorders, self harm and substance abuse in children and adults.

The PTRC’s Horniman Circle Therapy Centre is probably the only such clinic in Mumbai that is providing help with emotional difficulties through psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The Centre was started with the aim of making this help accessible to families of all incomes, in order to help them lead a healthier emotional life. The fees, therefore, are structured on a sliding scale.

Referrals to the Centre come in from educational institutions, psychiatrists, paediatricians, general practitioners and others. Currently, the Centre is open from 9:00am till 8:00pm from Monday to Friday but consultations are by appointment only. The Centre has three paid posts. Clinical students and qualified therapists also see patients here- both children as well as adults. Work is gradually but surely gaining momentum. The Centre also houses one of the finest collections of specialized books on psychoanalysis and related subjects in the city. The library remains open every Saturday between 10:00am and 2:00pm for students who wish to use this resource.

Much of course, still remains to be done and efforts are on right now to try and raise funds for this pioneering work. At the Centre we are trying our best to forge stronger and more extensive links that will make our services available to needy children. To achieve this, we hope to work together with colleges and other special educational institutions.

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