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Dr. Gair graduated from Harvard College (1945) and Harvard Medical School (1950). His general psychiatry residency training was completed at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital (1954) and his child psychiatry fellowship at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (1958) (same hospital, new name). He studied neurology at the National Hospital at Queens Square in London during the period of his general psychiatry residency (1953-1954). He was Clinical Director and later Superintendent of the Gaebler Children’s Center, the Massachusetts Dept of Mental Health state hospital for children under 16, from 1973 to 1989 and was Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine from 1983 to 1998. Dr. Gair currently consults to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and teaches and supervises PGY3 residents during their Child/Adolescent Psychiatry rotation and also PGY4 residents on an elective basis.

Dear Pookie,
Dr. Donald Gair was in fact Heathwood's superior and he was ultimately responsible. That is a fact...he could have fired or controlled Heathwood. If you do a little research like a simple google "Dr. Donald Gair Gaebler Children's Unit" you will find what I say is true.
But sadly I know of Dr. Gair from the personal experience of two and a half years as an inpatient on Ward E in the seventies...he was as I recall a strict and hateful man. If you read any of the psychiatric articles or news interviews for that matter, which you can find online that he either authored or spoke with interviewers you will see that he favors force in treatment.

hmm

Does anyone knew something new about Gaebler School girl ?

Any word on Shawna wood yet???

I don't think that was there when Motts was there

ps:motts should have made a photo of that

thats so cool boiler, wasnt it at the end of one of the wards?. I guess that was drawn only a few years before gaebler was demolished, maybe even by an other ex patient. this could perhaps even resemble an female patient.

MR STRUTS

I know that picture. I have seen it at Gaebler in person. I have a picture of that in my phone.

hi patrick, do you know gaebler school girl.? I think you two where there simultaneously for a short time.

AMEN TO THAT! still with ya!

I was there 82 to 84 I don't write all the time but you would be surprised of how many of us that was there that keeps an update on this

hi again,

i just threw the internet over, to find the big picture.

http://2.bp.blogspot.c.../s1600/100_7421a.JPG link should work

Hi boiler!, thank you for trying.I really would want to know her story, and talk to her. gaeblers history just makes me sad, it reminds me of my own dark times in school.
And if someone is interested in the drawn picture of a woman, i´ve talked about, go to http://abandoneddreams2010again.blogspot.de/
and scroll down to "Gaeblers children´s center". You can also go to

https://lostinnewengla...er-childrens-center/ ,and click trough the pictures. I have that pic in big size, but cant find that one anymore.

the reason why that picture is so appealing for me is, it stands out to most of the other senseless, greasy graffitis that covered all the walls, ceiling. It really is a very beautiful drawn woman, even though it still doesnt make any sense at all.

All available to Pookie,Former Patients house. Lol. Don't get worked up about people that don't know what went on here. There's no way they can comprehend what went on. As long as we all have each other.