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The second meeting of Directors of Training Institutes and Chairs of Education Committees took place on Sunday 25 July 1993, at the Amsterdam Congress venue. Approximately forty Directors and Chairs attended, providing good inter-regional representation.
Dr Edward Weinshel was Dr Arnold Cooper's successor in the Chair, and he expressed his appreciation of Dr Cooper's work to date. He explained that the purpose of these meetings is to examine actual situations in various institutes, their various curricula and implementation of training standards, and to discuss regional differences in psychoanalysis, for example, in obtaining a significant number of candidates and cases.
Open discussion commenced with a survey of areas which were experiencing difficulties in obtaining numbers of candidates or cases. Many representatives noted that the numbers of new candidates had fallen in recent years, and it was agreed if the consequent trend towards fewer patients continues, psychoanalytic standards will fall.
One case in particular came to light: a new independent institute established in California,