Thank you for the excellent special section on the Columbia psychoanalytic program (TAP 28/4). I would like to add an interesting sidelight to your story. While you described in detail how the Columbia program engendered the training program at Emory University, you neglected to mention that the Columbia program also indirectly fostered the development of another university-affiliated psychoanalytic training program.

Tulane University's Psychoanalytic Medicine Program began when Bob Heath, a recent Columbia graduate, assumed directorship of the Tulane psychiatric residency program [See TAP 26/3]. Heath, with the encouragement of Sandor Rado, implemented a training track in psychoanalysis, integrated with the psychiatric residency program. Tulane's program was modeled loosely after Columbia's. When efforts to affiliate with The American failed, the Tulane Psychoanalytic Medicine Program became one of the founding institutes of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. It is still in operation as a component institute of the Academy.

Eventually, a group of psychoanalysts recruited by Heath as Tulane faculty members left the department to found the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. Thus, it could be said that the Columbia program contributed indirectly to the formation of both psychoanalytic training facilities in New Orleans.

Ivri Kumin, M.D.

Bellevue, WA