ABSTRACT
A good medical training, with its apprenticeship in relations with sick and the knowledge of the possibilities and nature of somatic disorders, had been considered, despite all its defects, as the best preparation for the psychoanalytic profession by the institute's admissions committee. Referring to the need to train analysts in psychoanalytic institutes, Freud said that it was hardly possible to refer to any standard for assessing qualities of the candidate. It was not uncommon for ageing women in need of adventure or unsuccessful men to be attracted to the institute's training program. If medical training was considered at the time to be best preparation for the profession of psychoanalyst, other professions should not be totally excluded from the training provided by the institute. The question of the guarantee leads directly to that of the regulation of training, which had the effect of introducing a distortion insofar as the aims of science and those of organisation are of a contradictory nature.
