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This is a report of the first Three-Institute Conference on Training Analysis of the Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Topeka Psychoanalytic Institutes held in April, 1965. It contains two important psychoanalytic presentations: Therese Benedek's Training Analysis—Past, Present and Future, and Jacob Arlow's Myth and Ritual in Psychoanalytic Training. There are also statements by the conference consultants: Ralph Tyler, Helen Ross, and Jacob Arlow; however, the bulk of the report (spiral bound) contains summaries of the discussions of the participants of the conference. Following Henry Brosin's erudite foreword, the preface states that the report is 'for the most part concerned with the definition of the training analysis and with issues and problems to be met during its conduct as an integral part of psychoanalytic education'. This purpose was achieved, with the result that many issues were opened up, discussed, and left to be solved in the future.
Dr. Benedek reviews the evolution of training analysis through her own experiences and focuses on the psychoanalyst and his double role as therapist and educator. The report of her early training experiences in Leipzig and her direct involvement with the development of psychoanalytic education, were grounds for considering that training analysis has no special technique but does have the additional aim of education. Because the 'correct technique' to be applied in training analysis has many shadings, she believes that the goals and methods of training are still difficult to formulate. There is a strong plea for recognition of the educational aims of training analysis, which in her case was achieved with help of her supervisory experience. Yet she cautions against knowledge which blinds the perceptions of direct experience of the emerging unconscious and