It is essential to the public interest and the future of psychoanalysis as a profession that individual practitioners be certified and institutions be accredited on a nationwide basis. The accomplishment of that goal necessitates scrutiny of training objectives. To that end, this symposium was held to explore what training has been in the past, what it is now, who should become an analyst, the role of disparate schools of psychoanalysis, commonalities of training, keys to successful analytic functioning, and the present possibilities for accrediting psychoanalysis as a profession. Highlights of that convocation make up this report.

It is well to begin by recalling how the two most important psychoanalytic theories yet developed came into being. Both Freud's psychoanalysis and Jung's analytical psychology represent the intel