Psychoanalysis in this country today faces difficulties which stem in part from its history and in part from its mode of organization as a science and a profession. The close alliance to psychiatry has made psychoanalysis a second profession which is chronologically subsequent to psychiatry. One effect has been to delay the start of training with the consequence that psychoanalysts are an older age group and are deprived of important working years as psychoanalysts whether they devote themselves primarily to psychoanalytic treatment or research.

Significant changes in medical and postgraduate psychiatric education offer opportunities now for experiment and innovation in psychoanalytic education which might provide remedies for the problem and attract people to psychoanalysis from medicine and from other fields.