Members and candidates of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute play significant rôles in practically all of the major psychiatric treatment and teaching activities in Boston and vicinity but show little involvement in the major psychiatry services outside Metropolitan Boston. The findings on which this generalization is based can be summarized as follows:

i.In the psychiatry services of the six major general hospitals and clinics in Boston the majority (56 per cent) of positions and most of the senior positions are held by analysts and candidates.