ABSTRACT
The members of psychoanalyst's conferences came from four institutes: New York, Boston, The State University of New York, and Chicago; and we met twice, each time for a two-day weekend. There was great homogeneity among the participants in their basic outlook on the essentials of psychoanalysis. The individual teacher is thus an important factor in psychoanalytic education, and much can be done on the local level to further his development. Few of the participants seemed to have given prior conscious attention to the influence of the institute and its curriculum upon the development and solidification of the student's self-image as an analyst; yet, once the topic was broached, it immediately aroused the greatest interest. Courses on psychoanalytic anthropology, however, or on psychoanalytic interpretations of works of literature should be given only as electives. Psychoanalytic education in the institute is therefore seen as a further cementing of insight to consciousness, an advance beyond the personal therapeutic aim.
