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Questionnaires were sent to directors, teachers and residents of psychiatric residency training centers to investigate the status and problems of instruction in psychodynamics. The question was raised in particular as to whether there should be any actual difference in the teaching of this subject in such centers
as compared to that in Psychoanalytic Institutes. The views of the Psychoanalytic Institutes were also sought.
The questions were designed to illuminate the theoretical and practical issues involved. Since psychodynamics, including analysis, are nuclear to psychiatry, residents must be instructed in the fundamental principles. The investigators are inclined to believe that all psychiatric residents, unless specific contraindications exist, might benefit by personal analysis.
The responses to the questionnaire by both analysts and nonanalysts show wide diversities that suggest the need for review of certain prevailing concepts concerning these matters. The separation of psychiatric and psychoanalytic training creates undesirable cleavages and inevitable difficulties in integrating these fields. Potter and Klein conclude that this state of affairs arises in large measure from the artificially and historically determined exclusion of psychoanalysis from medical schools.