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New York, American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. CV, No. 2, August, 1948, pp. 111–115.
Rado gives a short history of training in psychoanalysis from the early days in Vienna to the present situation in New York. The first systematic course of training in psycho-analysis was organized in the early 'twenties at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. At that time the curriculum was divided into three parts: didactic analysis, theoretical instruction, and practical work. The first psycho-analytic institute in the United States was organized according to the model of the Berlin Institute.
The analytic training institute saved the art and science of psycho-analysis but they could offer no full compensation for the exclusion of psychoanalysis from the medical schools in the United States. More and more this exclusion proved harmful to both sides. The establishment of the Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research at Columbia University, mostly due to Rado himself, has changed this situation. The Columbia plan of graduate residency training in psychoanalytic medicine, based on the facilities of the university, and now in operation for three academic years, requires three years of full-time graduate work. Under the Columbia system the students receive psycho-analytic clinical instruction from the beginning parallel with the theoretical programme. The purpose of this practical orientation is to introduce the student to the art of psycho-analytic observation and examination and acquaint him with the clinical variety of cases by unfolding before him in a comparative manner the gross psychodynamics of every case.