The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 20, 1951, No. 1: 'Toward Unification of Training in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.' Howard W. Potter, M.D., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Henriette R. Klein, M.D., New York, N.Y. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 108, No. 3, September, 1951, pp. 193–197.

Psychiatric residents indicated in a questionnaire as used by the two authors a need for organized training in psycho-dynamics, psychiatry, and psycho-analysis throughout their residencies. Observers could make no valid comparisons between the professional competence of residents who were in training at psycho-analytic institutes and those not being similarly trained. Residents in training at analytic institutes felt that this did not set up restrictions or limitations nor interfere with their clinical work but, rather, operated in a positive way during the residency training. All the teaching psychiatrists and all the teaching psycho-analysts agree that organized instruction in psychodynamics should be given in the residency training centre. Opinions about the value of a personal analysis independent of training for the practice of psycho-analysis were found to be based on tradition or personal experience rather than on investigative studies. The general consensus of teaching analysts was that there could be no modification of personal analysis of residents as to depth, breadth, or time. Half the analysts who recommended that residents undertake a personal analysis stated that it should begin at the start of the psychiatric residency or before.