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THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS has reported the following activities during the year 1936–1937, from October 1 to June 30: I. Research. The research work of the Institute has this year been concentrated chiefly upon the asthma problem. The material consists of three hay fever and sixteen asthma cases analyzed by twelve physicians. Some of these cases have now already completed their analysis and regular discussions of these cases are being continued by the entire group. In addition to the discussion of cases an attempt is being made to check some of the tentative formulations upon a larger number of cases by the use of the Murray Tests in which the fantasy productions stimulated by a standard set of pictures form the basis for a rough estimate of some of the characteristic mechanisms in the patient's personality. Work is also being continued upon the respiratory curves and hypertension and upon dream mechanisms. II. Professional Training. The following courses were presented during the fiscal year 1936–1937, from October 1 to June 30: For Members of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and Candidates of the Institute: Franz Alexander, M.D., and Therese Benedek, M.D., Clinical Conferences; Thomas M. French, M.D., Quantitative and Comparative Dream Studies; Leon J. Saul, M.D., Seminar on Freud's Case Histories; Thomas M. French, M.D., Mechanism of Individual Neuroses; Thomas M. French, M.D., Dream Seminar; Thomas M. French, M.D., Seminar on Review of Psychoanalytic Literature; Therese Benedek, M.D., Seminar on Freud's Papers on Technique; Franz Alexander, M.D., Technique of Dream Interpretation; Franz Alexander, M.D., Theory and Technique of the Psychoanalytic Therapy. For Professional Groups: Franz Alexander, M.D., and Thomas M. French, M.D., Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Psychotic Cases; Helen V. McLean, M.D., Application of Psychoanalysis to Literature; Leon J. Saul, M.D., and Catherine Bacon, M.D., Case Seminar for Psychiatric Social Work