The process of teaching psychoanalytic psychology to psychiatric residents has many problems. The residents usually become disturbed and have difficulties and psychoanalyst-teachers often present this material too early in the course, tending to make clinical facts become distorted. Therefore the author, in his work at a teaching hospital, emphasizes basic clinical psychiatry the first year, reserving the essentials of psychoanalysis for the second and third years in order to answer questions arising on descriptive and phenomenological levels. Residents may apply in the third year but cannot begin psychoanalytic training until the year is completed.