Psychoanalytic institutes require interminable training analysis, more obligatory supervision, more conformity to increasing rules so that candidates graduate with their thinking similar to that of ingratiating ideological or political trainees and, even at the age of fifty, still cling to their mentors in concealed hostility.

Strean contends that this is similar to the relationships that Freud had with his adherents and dissenters. He recommends separation of training analysis from the rest of the training and that seniors supervise each other to liberate the student from blind submission to analytic leaders.