ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis lies nearer to physiology, biochemistry and morphology, than to the laxer disciplines of literature, art and history. The analysis of the candidate effects removal of affective inhibition without adding to the intellectual function. Professional education must always be planned on what may at first seem an unnecessarily elaborate scale, or the practice of the profession will suffer in the long run. The public would get protection from quacks in psychoanalysis; this can only be done if the practice of psycho-analysis is hall-marked as is the practice of medicine, surgery, dentistry, nursing, massage, law, architecture, surveying, and accountancy, by instituting a disciplinary body, an obligation and a register. The tendency in nursing is to raise salaries and improve the grade of candidates; among lay psycho-analysts the standard should be high from the start and maintained at a high level, and the administrative attitude in all professions must not countenance anything tending to lower status or performance.
