The Dean

Change is inherent in any vital educational program. In recent years processes within and outside of the Institute have found their crystalization in a newly formulated six-year training program. Its content is consonant with developments in psychoanalytic theory and therapy; its creation is an expression of the responsiveness of the Institute to the needs and desires of psychiatrists currently seeking psychoanalytic training; its aim is to maintain and enhance the place of the Institute in the psychoanalytic movement.

The history of the evolution of this program reflects the spirit and actual policy which guides the Institute, namely, that of participation by many, of a majority agreement, and of a spirit of experiment. Since its foundation, the Institute has made several major revisions in its training program and many minor ones. They were in response to our acquired experience, changing situations, and the wishes of the members.

Although this program was to go into effect on September 1, 1958, discussion of it by the Faculty Council, Board of Trustees, and the Candidates Association over the past year has already produced a quickening of spirit, an upsurge of enthusiasm, an attitude of eager anticipation, and a mobilization of energies with very obvious, concrete results.

The new course in training is a comprehensive six-year program. Foundation courses are to be completed in the first three years and the advanced technical ones in the last three. Three supervisions will be required, the first to begin in the third year.

“The academic program is designed to give the candidate a grasp of the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Horney's theory of human motivation constitutes the basis of this program. Knowledge and appreciation of the evolution and current developments in psychoanalysis are also considered vital to the candidate's training.

“The position of the Institute is that only an individual who has made considerable progress toward becoming a who