The Dean

When innovations have become so integrated into our training program that they evoke limited comment and are assumed to be part of our usual ways of functioning, we can feel that in a measure they are serving the purposes that brought them into being. Four years after being instituted, our six-year curriculum is now accepted as though it had always been in existence. Its positive effect on the morale of the candidates and teaching staff has been evident. The disappearance of many of the problems which obtained under the previous structure also is encouraging.

In the past year efforts toward stimulating the teaching staff to be more inventive and original in communicating the content and objectives of courses has borne fruit. Our emphasis, in the past few years, on the need to more actively integrate instruction in Horney theory into all courses, both pre-clinical and clinical, is now becoming a more usual part of the teaching by all the instructors.

The functioning of the Institute and the work of the candidates gradually has become a more integral part of the Karen Horney Clinic program. The arrangement begun this year of remunerating hours, beyond the three contributed, has evoked a positive response and extended the cooperate activities of the Institute and the Clinic.

In the past year there has been an increase in the number of applicants accepted for matriculation. We believe that a factor in this has been the Orientation Course in the “Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis” organized for psychiatrists and being given for the second year. The downward curve in the number of graduates has continued from the peak of several years ago.

This year we scheduled a new course, “Psychiatric Problems in Medical Practice for General Practitioners.” Supported by a grant from the National Institute for Mental Health, it was quite successful as to numbers and response. Arrangements are being made to have the course repeated next year.

In order to increase its effectiveness and di