The New York Psychoanalytic Treatment Center

The Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute was established in 1947. At present three services are being run corresponding to three different therapeutic needs and to three different didactic aims. This three-fold set-up corresponds rather well to the various modes and degrees of help that can be offered to patients, and at the same time to the needs of students at different levels of their training.

The first of these is the psychoanalytic service proper in which second year students are working. Those accepted after April 1, 1947 pledged themselves to conduct two analyses under supervision at the Treatment Center. Those who were accepted prior to that date may collaborate on a voluntary basis and many have expressed their willingness to do so. The maximum utilization of available time and space (nine rooms are set aside for analytic treatment) will be reached only in the course of the coming year. Both analysis and supervision are being conducted at the Treatment Center. As the students do not receive fees for this work, it was suggested that the instructors not be paid for supervision of such cases. At an instructors' meeting in June it was agreed to supervise two students each at the Center on this basis.

Selected first year students are working in a second service once a week. In this Monday evening group they learn to familiarize themselves with the broad field of neurotic behavior, with diagnosis and prognosis, and with more general principles of psychotherapy. Teaching is done by lecture and by supervision in small groups (one instructor for two or three students).

Finally there is a study group for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which meets once a week. In this group Dr. Stone and other analysts work together with advanced students of the third, fourth and fifth years. This work coincides with a research project. It serves the purpose of developing methods of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and giving these methods a more rational ba