ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the basic structure and operations of the outpatient clinic, the institute's advisory work, and its training system. In addition to its major work in treatment, training, and advisory functions, the Matthias Heinrich Goring Institute also operated as a parent organization for affiliated groups of psychotherapists in other German cities. The institute did treat patients, train psychotherapists, and perform advisory functions, especially in education, in accordance with the aims laid down in the statutes. The work of the outpatient clinic was directed toward the goals of serving impecunious patients and validating psychotherapy's claim to medical and professional status. The guidelines for the clinic did mention the need for the proper Weltanschauung on the part of both patient and therapist, excluding thereby those who did not measure up to the requirements of the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws.
