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Pollock offers a review of the workings and achievements of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. That Institute has sought to bring about mutual understanding among general physicians, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts. It tries to look beyond private practice in psychoanalysis and thus relate analysis to other fields of social science. The Institute has also promoted much research. In describing how the Institute's curriculum grew, Pollock stresses the importance of Franz Alexander's teachings, his branching out as a researcher and the enormous activity of his professional life. His "background of humanistic-philosophical concerns and rigorous scientific testing and theory-building made him an early participant in a 'two-culture polarity.'" Alexander always saw to it that the Institute had an almost equal mix of men and women. Karl Menninger became the first person to be trained in psychoanalysis in Chicago, and the Topeka Institute was the first "geographical" institute sponsored by the Chicago Institute. Alexander thought it important to separate the Institute from the Society and other academic organizations. It is an interesting historical fact that five years after graduation and following the successful conclusion of the analysis of a student under supervision, every graduate could be appointed a training and supervising analyst. And the Chicago Institute was authorized to confer the degree of Doctor of Psychoanalysis, the first and only Institute to have this authorization. Pollock attempts some predictions about psychoanalysis in prevention and early intervention, and extension into other fields. He closes by quoting Marcus Aurelius' thought that one must never forget the past from which we have come, and always welcome change.