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Beginning its second fifty years, the American Institute for Psychoanalysis is now realizing many of the ideals Karen Horney and her colleagues espoused when they founded the Institute after breaking away from the New York Psychoanalytic. Evidently, as in so many other psychoanalytic institutes, good intentions are no match for the influence of charismatic authoritarian leaders. Forty years after Karen Horney's death we are expanding our curriculum to include the work of other modern psychoanalytic pioneers as well as their antecedents. Likewise, developmental findings and theories have also been incorporated in this enlarged curriculum. We have found that, rather than diluting Horney's greatest contribution, her cultural-characterological approach, the cross-currents of discussion from various streams of thought have enhanced our understanding, elaboration, and application of Horneyan psychoanalysis.
In recent years the Institute has expanded beyond the training of psychoanalysts to include a psychology internship and externship, a two-year program in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and a social work field placement program. These programs have served to provide training and education in psychoanalytic principles to clinicians early in their professional development, as well as providing opportunities for developing junior faculty members and supervisors.
The perspectives of clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, and psychiatric nurses added to those of psychiatrists have given us the many advantages of interdisciplinary student and faculty bodies. Happily, there have been very few of the frictions and tensions that pervade relations between these disciplines in other settings. In addition, the return to the Institute of a number of colleagues who had left in past years has further reinforced this spirit of collegiality.
Much of the impetus for innovative applications and elaborations of our thinking have come over the years through the development of special p