ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic Institutes differ from other institutions of higher education and training. Institutes are expected to select their training analysts on merit in a fair and objective way, but training analysts do not thereby become any more knowledgeable or wiser. Nevertheless, it is founded that cultural and language differences do not alter the root sources of neurosis and health which is unavoidably shared as part of our common humanity along with birth, maturation, and death. Psychoanalysing is difficult, demanding work; the work of acquiring the ability to psychoanalyse is no less difficult and demanding. Analysts of candidates receive reports about the candidate's progress but absent themselves from the discussion of the report and any decision about it by the training committee. The purpose, of course, is to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the analysis so as to guarantee its personal character—an analysis that is a requirement of training but must also be a personal analysis.
