Of three hundred twenty-one graduates and candidates of psychoanalytic institutes in Los Angeles, seventy-one participated in the County Mental Health Department. They were polled by questionnaire in an attempt to get their views on the relationship of community psychiatry and psychoanalysis. In view of the general trend of community psychiatry of short-term approaches to large numbers, it might have been anticipated that a psychoanalyst, with major interest in long-term intensive psychotherapy, would have but little interest in the community field. In Los Angeles, this is not the case; the psychoanalyst is keenly interested in community mental health programs.