The Karen Homey Clinic

The work at the Karen Horney Clinic continued in a fashion similar to that of the previous year. Attempts were made to intensify the services and to make improvements wherever the need became evident. Special attention was paid to the intake procedures in order to permit the selection of patients who are qualified for treatment, not only because of their urgent need for therapy but also because of the special character of their condition. Fulfillment of this latter prerequisite is in conformity with the special task of the clinic to serve as training center for the American Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Many other activities of the clinic were put into service to fulfill, as much as this is possible at the present time, the program of working toward the goal of making the clinic a training and research center. In addition to individual conferences between therapists and supervisors and many conferences of both supervisors and therapists with the Medical Director, there were meetings of the whole professional staff and sessions of special groups, especially of the Medical Board and of the members of the Child Guidance Unit, which were devoted to discussions of clinical problems. The vivid interest and active participation in these discussions was most encouraging and indicative of the advantages the clinic offers not only to its patients and the community at large, but to its doctors, social workers, and administrators. All of them benefit in their own way from these meetings and simultaneously experience the group spirit, the concept of working-together, which is indispensable in a project which was created for the benefit of the community and to contribute to progress in the field of psychoanalysis.

It is understandable, in view of the function the clinic has to fulfill for the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, that the Board of Trustees of the Institute and the Board of Directors and Medical Board of the clinic feel strongly that the physical facilities of the