Candidates' Corner

With this issue we are introducing a new project. The pages of the Bulletin are being made available to candidates at accredited Institutes to discuss their problems and activities. Candidates throughout the country are encouraged through their candidate representatives to contact their local Corresponding Editors. If they wish anything published in the Bulletin we shall be glad to cooperate.

The student organization of the Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis writes of its activities:

“We are nearing the end of a very interesting and successful first year under a new plan of organization adopted since the formation of the new Institute in Philadelphia. Since it may be of considerable interest to other students and other institutes, we will try to report our organization in some detail.

“The approximately forty students now in training under the Institute of the Association operate a self-governing student organization to help fulfill the many needs we have which are not met in other ways. Among its more important and useful purposes are those of providing a forum and a channel of expression for student opinion about the educational program of the Institute, and to carry out an educational and a social program of its own. The student group is sub-divided into eight basic units called “Reading” or “Seminar” groups, composed of 4, 5 or 6 members each, who hold regular sessions in the evenings from one to four times a month, depending on each group's wishes. Each such group is composed of students of approximately equal advancement in training. These groups, once organized, are considered rather permanent institutions, with the expectation that they will continue as organized for more or less the rest of the professional life of the members. Each group exercises the greatest freedom in its choice of analytical literature for intensive study and discussion, and conducts itself as a study seminar. This system has operated for the past year