Notes

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE has published a report for the academic years 1934–1937. In a foreword, Monroe A. Meyer, M.D., Executive Director of the Institute states:

When the members of the New York Psychoanalytic Society established the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in September 1931, they envisaged the accomplishment of numerous aims as the outcome of the founding of their Institute. Their unanimous sentiment imposed upon this institution the task of striving to attain a sixfold goal. The Institute was expected (1) to become a center for the training of psychoanalysts; (2) to carry forward a program of psychoanalytic research; (3) to develop a psychoanalytic clinic; (4) to foster the application of psychoanalysis to allied fields; (5) to present and represent psychoanalysis to the public, both medical and lay; and, (6) to afford a home for the Society, which would serve as the focus of the intellectual and cultural interests of its members.

The publication of this report—the second triennial report of the Institute—is an effort to depict how closely this organization has been able to approach each one of the goals that have been enumerated. A perusal of these pages will demonstrate that gratifying progress has been made in certain directions. Such a reading will show also that in some respects much remains to be achieved. It is in the domain of psychoanalytic training that the Institute has enjoyed its greatest measure of success. As regards the related fields, the Institute has attracted social workers, teachers, sociologists and anthropologists, who have attended courses both to learn from us and to teach us. Furthermore, many medical colleagues have taken the pains to acquaint themselves with our viewpoints and have come to respect our efforts. On the other hand, the operation of a psychoanalytic clinic, the pursuit of a program of organized research, the creation of a registry for statistics and the maintenance of a bureau of clinical inf