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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE. Extension School offers the following courses for social workers:

• 1The Application of Psychoanalysis to Social Work, a course for a selected group of advanced social workers. The aim of the course will be to present a thorough psychoanalytic discussion of social work cases, with particular reference to those elements that have direct bearing on the practical problems of social work.

• The psychodynamics of family and social relationships will be presented from the standpoint of psychoanalytic principles in relation to practical management. These seminars will be given in the form of round table discussions. Attendance is limited to twenty.

• The structure of this course has been modified in accordance with experience in similar courses in the past. No general theoretical lectures will be given.

• The four subdivisions of the course will consist each of (a) an introductory clinical lecture and (b) several sessions of detailed review of a representative number of especially prepared social work cases that demonstrate the issues under consideration. These subdivisions are: I. The Child—Conscious and Unconscious Aggressive Attitudes—Delinquency Manifestations (stealing, truancy, lying, etc.). II. Parental Conflicts and Their Manifestations. III. Character Types and Social Behavior. IV. Types of Procedure of Therapy. The seminars will be conducted by Dr. I. T. Broadwin. The seminars will commence on Thursday, October 6, 1938 at 8:30 P.M., and will be given for fifteen successive Thursdays, with the omission of November 24th.

• 2Psychoanalytic Thinking in Case Work, an intermediate seminar for social workers, will be given under the auspices of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute this fall. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the correct manner of utilizing the psychological findings of psychoanalysis in case work. The psychological forces operating in the contact of clients with case work agencies will be considered. Th