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The founding of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies was conceived as another step in the attempt to find a solution to the problem of analytic training. Balint (1965), in discussing analytic training says:
The greatest mistake we could make would be to consider our present training system as a final solution to our many problems. In fact, this is far from being the truth. The present system is only one more step in a long development after many previous steps have been found faulty in one respect or another, and it is quite certain that future generations will form the same opinions of our present system (p. 275).
To provide material for a history of the formation of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, with its particular philosophy of education, training and treatment, its founders were asked to respond to a number of questions. Some of the questions and responses follow.
Most of the founders agreed that they were interested in establishing an institute where students could be trained to deal with the narcissistic disorders they were increasingly seeing in treatment (in addition to the oedipal disorders). Although other institutes