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Program of Training, Treatment and Research of the NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE. The war brought to acute focus the high incidence of mental ill health. Selective Service evaluation of about fifteen million men resulted in a rejection of 4,217,000, or 28.1 per cent of all the young men examined. Of these 701,700, or 16.6 per cent, were rejected for nervous and mental disease, and 582,100, or 13.8 per cent, for mental deficiency. Thus, 30.4 per cent of the men who were tested for the fighting forces and rejected were found inadequate on one or another neuropsychiatric basis. In addition, 44.6 per cent of all disability discharges from the army, constituting the largest single group of discharges, were for neuropsychiatric reasons. These figures do not include vast numbers of men discharged for physical reasons in which the emotional component is great, those discharged for ineptness and undesirable traits of character, and certain other categories that are heavily loaded with psychopathology. There are only four thousand qualified psychiatrists available for nearly nine million sufferers from psychoneuroses. About 3,200 of these psychiatrists are employed full time on the staffs of mental hospitals and institutions. There are fewer than one thousand qualified psychiatrists available for preventive work with the millions who need help in our communities. For this work 20,000 psychiatrists are needed.

The program of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute has been designed to help meet this need: I. expanded training facilities for training psychoanalysts; II. the establishment of a free or low cost treatment center for individuals of low incomes who suffer from psychoneuroses; III. research in the field of psychoanalytic psychiatry.

The Institute is now training 110 students, all graduate physicians and experienced psychiatrists, who have come to the Institute for postgraduate work in psychoanalysis. These students include teachers of psychiatry from Cana