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There seems to be general agreement that the selection of candidates for psychoanalytic training is one of the most important and vulnerable spots in the establishment of educational programs. The main issues rest on these considerations: 1, what qualities form an essential core in the character of the 'good analyst'; 2, the extent to which they are present; 3, in what degree they can be discerned, or their maturing or development forecast, before the individual has been analyzed and had some experience with analyzing; and 4, what criteria and methods can be used for their evaluation either in developed or in larval form.
The digest of literature bearing in any way on the problems of selection of candidates revealed three main influences on training which converged in the 1940's. These were the growth of the knowledge of psychoanalysis by the force of recognition of its value; the effects of the Second World War, especially in dislocating the centers of psychoanalytic training from the Continent to England and the United States; and the development of ego psychology.