Psychoanalytic education, in reacting to the rapid changes in our society, is attempting to chart a course that preserves the best in its historical development while at the same time altering its practices to correspond to current changes. Both local and national organizations have begun to train selected nonmedical individuals. Within the traditional tripartite training, the training analysis is now viewed as a therapeutic phase of a lifelong process; and present-day didactic curricula often include increased emphasis on the current state of knowledge and more exposure to child analysis. The principle of the importance