This is a study of psychoanalytic training methods in Berlin, the United States and Buenos Aires. The authors describe the development of the Psychoanalytic Polyclinic in Berlin and the adoption and modification of its methods by the psychoanalytic institutes in the United States. They hold that training has evolved farthest in the United Stated and is now a model for all other countries.

In Latin America there is some psychoanalytic activity in Brazil, Chile and Peru, but formal psychoanalytic training in South America began with the founding of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association in Buenos Aires. Theirs is a three-year program and it is at present attended by students from Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico and Colombia.