The Dean

The third year of operation of the new six-year program has further affirmed its values. Candidate applicants have come to the Institute clearer about what they may expect, and matriculants have arranged their total life program in more thoughtful and considered ways to keep pace with, and take full advantage of their training. The resulting atmosphere of purposiveness and directedness has also constructively influenced the attitudes of candidates who started their training prior to this new arrangement. A larger number of all candidates are now both participating in the treatment program of the Karen Horney Clinic and attending its scientific meetings.

The faculty advisor system, now in its sixth year, has proved its helpfulness to all candidates and has effected the necessary clear separation of the adminisstrative aspects of the training from that relating to courses, supervision, and particularly to the personal analysis. As a result, the doctor-patient relationship can more effectively fulfill its vast possibilities, particularly for resolving authority problems.

This year an “Orientation Course in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis” was instituted. It was given four times—September 27 and November 15, 1960, and January 24 and March 7, 1961. About two hundred staff members of hospitals in New York and New Jersey attended. Eight members of the faculty participated in the conduct of nine sections into which the groups were divided. Members of the faculty have continued to give lectures individually and in series to the residents of hospitals. Other efforts are continuing to be made to inform potential candidate applicants regarding the Institute's training program.

The maintenance numerically of our teaching staff, and its qualitative improvement, both essential to any training program, have continued to be possible through our practice of having assistant and rotating instructors, and through the guidance received from course evaluations by candidates and in