Although the basic task for psychoanalysts remains the improvement of theory, practice, and training to the highest possible levels, the application of psychoanalytic knowledge to community problems will greatly enrich psychoanalysis itself. Psychoanalysis should undertake more ambitious study of the

'self' because with rapid changes in the society, it is the threat to the self that is very basically involved in much of the anxiety we see today. Psychoanalysis should become more involved in philosophies of education. In terms of meeting community needs, the author speaks of 'specialist centers' of psychoanalytic psychiatrists, involved as a 'pivotal resource' for the entire network of agencies concerned with delivering health services. 'Far from being on the "way out", psychoanalytic knowledge could, and should, be more than ever on the "way in".'