The author reviews the increasing interest in psycho-analytic psychiatry in various training programmes since the War, and asks what may ideally be expected in the training of the medical students of the future.

The student would be selected not only for his intelligence, but for a sympathetic and tolerant personality. His grounding in the basic sciences should include some knowledge of cross-cultural anthropology and the biology of the sexual drives. He should have at the beginning of his fifth year of medicine the ability to study the external and personal factors determining the patient's illness in such a way that these become clear to both student and patient. Therefore to obtain his doctorate he would have to attain a capacity in interviewing which enabled him to elicit the patient's total biography without arousing reluctance. He must be able to discriminate positively in some measure between psychosomatic reactions and non-neurotic