Dear Mr. Hayley,

I have received the copy of the letter addressed to you by the officers of the Barcelona Psychoanalytical Institute and the Spanish Psychoanalytical Society. They call attention to a statement I made in my article 'Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Training Around the World' (Internat. J. Psycho-Anal. 59:477–503, 1978) concerning their admissions principles and practices which they state to be diametrically opposite to their actual policies and procedures in this area.

All of the quotations and statements concerning psychoanalytic training principles and practices made in my paper which was prepared originally for the 7th Pre-Congress Conference on Training at the 30th International Psychoanalytical Association Congress in Jerusalem in 1977 were