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The American Institute for Psychoanalysis published an annual report for 1944-45. The report emphasized the progress being made toward the development of a sounder training course in psychoanalysis. With this end in view new courses have been added and changes have been made in those already being given.
A course of five lectures on Transference proved valuable and will be expanded and repeated. The course on Readings in Freud has been increased to 20 lectures extending over two semesters. The courses in Psychoanalytic Technique and The Meaning of Dreams have both been reorganized. A course on the Theory of Neurosis will be given again. A course on Child Psychiatry, which has been repeatedly requested by candidates, has been organized and will be conducted by Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist in charge of the Children's Ward, Psychiatric Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York.
In one of the Continuous Case Seminars last year, a change was made in that the instructor, rather than one of the candidates, presented the material of a patient in analysis. This experiment proved valuable. In the future both types of seminar will be given.
There has been a steady growth of interest in the orientation courses in psychoanalysis offered in collaboration with the New School for Social Research. These lectures and seminars help to familiarize those who deal with human beings and human problems with psychoanalytic concepts which will be useful in their special field of work.