Events in the Psychoanalytic World

We have a new Corresponding Editor in New York, Dr. Jacob A. Arlow who has energetically gathered some interesting material. The first item of interest deals with the Treatment Center.

After three years of pioneering service, Dr. Heinz Hartmann has resigned as Director of the Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. His resignation takes effect October 1, 1951, at which time he will be succeeded by Dr. Leo Stone.

Dr. Hartmann played a large role in helping found the Treatment Center of the Psychoanalytic Institute. In addition to rendering an invaluable contribution to the community in the form of low cost psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the Treatment Center under Dr. Hartmann's guidance has expanded the training facilities and research activities of the Institute.

Analytic work was begun in the fall of 1938. The patients then numbered 8. At the present time 30 students are carrying almost 50 analytic cases in the center. In this work they are supervised by 30 instructors. Each student at the Institute pledges himself to conduct two analyses in the Treatment Center for which he receives no remuneration. The instructors likewise do not charge for supervising such cases.

In order to select the most promising cases from a didactic as well as therapeutic point of view, an Intake Committee has been set up to pass upon the applications and to establish scientifically adequate diagnostic and prognostic criteria for the selection of clinic patients. More than 140 applications have been processed by this committee. During the first half of the current school year, six meetings were held during which 38 cases were discussed. Of these, 16 were accepted for analysis, 12 for psychotherapy and 10 more were rejected. In order to check the validity of the committee's judgments, Dr. Hartmann has instituted a follow-up study of the patients who had been accepted for analytic treatment. One of the interesting details which has emerged so far is that