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Psychoanalytic training is one of the most forceful educational processes that exists, probably parallelled only by the forming force exercised within some church institutions. Through the moments of the psychoanalytic training—psychoanalysis, supervised psychoanalytic work and seminars in small groups—psychoanalytic institutes have an impact on their candidates in all levels of the personality and its integration. The impact is multidimensional. In my discussion I will abstain from discussing the analyses that the candidates are going through themselves, not because they would have a small impact, on the contrary as we all know, but because they lie outside the proper training. In themselves they could bestow material for hours of discussion.
The manifest objectives of the training of psychoanalysts are probably fairly uncontroversial. We all want to train our candidates to become knowledgeable, sensitive, judicious and responsible analysts. When we begin to discuss more in detail how to arrive at these ends, we will however probably find more divergent ideas. I will present some of my educational ideas at the end of my