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The eleven-year history of the Clinic of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute has been reviewed and 99 cases accepted during that time have been evaluated. The results of analysis show that about two thirds (64 percent) of the cases were judged "good" or "very good" analytic experiences for the student analysts, and that the patients improved significantly. These results have been compared with those from other clinics, but only approximately. Some of the problems of analyzability and evaluation of results as they apply to clinics have been discussed. Our series appears to be the longest, consecutive, unselected series of analyzed cases reported.
In order to make statistics about "results" meaningful, a great deal more work must be done on the language of psychoanalysis. We can say at this point that a common, generally understood