This exploratory study looks at training and postgraduate experience of the 2008 - 2014 graduates of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. It follows our former study of all living graduates through the year 2007 . The survey developed and used in the first study, with a few additional questions added to increase understanding of the training experience, was sent to 38 graduates with a return rate of 58%. As with the first survey, graduates were invited to assess their training experiences and post-graduation involvement professional activities. Questions were added to the previous survey relating the influence on their training of the change in gender distribution, and of the diversity of professions now represented in the training program.

The data from our second survey showed important difference when compared with our first. The first survey showed male respondents in the majority; in the second, women held the majority. Of the professions represented in the training program, psychiatry was the majority in the first survey, Psychology and social work held the majority in the second. Analytic immersion continues to decrease, with most respondents having two patients at the time of graduation and one at the time of the survey.