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cord-321492-u2jm6y25	Catty, Jocelyn	Lockdown and adolescent mental health: reflections from a child and adolescent psychotherapist	2020-06-10		.txt	text/plain	3093	152	58	The time of the COVID-19 virus brings a strange shifting of priorities to my professional life as a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Do we, like primary care staff, rush to 'man the barricades' (Davies, 2020, Waiting in Pandemic Times) -anxiety about the possibility of redeployment is spreading among mental health staff even where they are entirely untrained for physical health care -or do we hunker down at home to conduct therapy online for the foreseeable future? 1 This paper was written in the first two weeks after lockdown, when emergency presentations nationally were hugely reduced (BMJ, 2020); by the time of publication, it could be anecdotally observed that emergency presentations of adolescents in a state of mental health crisis had increased. The child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Jocelyn Catty reflects on how psychological therapies are positioned during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-321492-u2jm6y25.txt	./txt/cord-321492-u2jm6y25.txt