Dawes, Lydia M. Gibson, 1896-

Dawes was the first child analyst and child psychiatrist at Children's Hospital, Boston. She studied in Vienna from 1932-36, and completed her analysis training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Dawes was in the forefront of many of the activities of the growing psychoanalysis field. She worked at Children's Hospital (Boston, Mass.), Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Center, Judge Baker Children's Center, and the Smith College School for Social Work. She became a senior child psychiatrist at Children's Hospital in 1968 and training psychiatrist emerita at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1972. She died in 1990.