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In Volume 5, Number 3 of the Bulletin, September, 1949, there appeared the official procedure for the establishment of Psychoanalytic Training Facilities. At the annual meeting held in Detroit in April, 1950, Dr. Edward Bibring, Chairman of the Committee on Institutes, presented amendments to these regulations which follow:
“We have received a number of letters of endorsement with reference to applications for official recognition of newly organized institutes. Most of the endorsing letters do not live up to our expectation, since they represent more or less routine letters which are of no help to the task of the Committee on Institutes or the important function of the Board on Professional Standards. In order to avoid similar situations in the future, the Committee on Institutes, therefore, suggests the following amendments to the regulations for the establishment of psychoanalytic training institutes, as accepted at the annual meeting in Montreal in May, 1949 and as published in the Bulletin, Volume 5, No. 3, September, 1949, pages 1-3.
Amendment 1—To the paragraph under the heading “A. Institutes” the following sentence should be added; “Such letters of endorsement should be based on an intimate familiarity with the faculty, curriculum, and principles of training (including the basic philosophy) of the applying institute by the endorsing institute and discussed and accepted by a majority vote of the Educational Committee or Faculty Committee of the endorsing institute. The results of the investigation and the acceptance by the Educational Committee or Faculty Committee should be specifically mentioned in the letter of endorsement. It should also be stated that the endorsing institute assumes full responsibility for the endorsement.”
Amendment II—To the paragraph under the heading “B. Training Centers” the following sentence should be added; “Such letters of endorsement have to be based on the intimate familiarity with the qualifications of the staff members of