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THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE for Psychoanalysis reviews its work for 1932–1933 in a pamphlet containing statistical data and three articles dealing with the major activities of the Institute: the teaching of analysis, work on somatic disorders and on female psychology. In his paper on The Relation of Psychoanalysis to Psychiatry, Dr. Alexander stresses the rôle of psychoanalysis as a basic science in psychiatry, in the sense that physics and chemistry are basic sciences in medicine and technology. Although a better knowledge of the somatic corollaries of psychoneuroses and psychoses is to be desired, psychiatrists are mistaken in wanting to substitute somatic knowledge for psychological knowledge. In another article, Dr. Alexander reviews the principles, objectives and preliminary results of the work of the Institute on psychological factors in somatic disturbances. The last article, by Dr. Karen Horney, stresses the frequency of functional female disorders, as well as their importance in female psychology, and discusses a neurotic type of woman selected for study at the Institute.