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Don’t take too much for granted concerning residents’ knowledge and experience – they have much less experience and knowledge than you might think! Don’t be too theoretical! Don’t expect that residents will greet quotations from Freud texts (or other psychoanalytic authors) with awe just because you think they are tremendous! Don’t try to lead residents to a new (and somewhat remote) area of psychiatry they are not acquainted with; rather help them to explore their own field of work and start from there! Be useful for residents! Show them how useful psychoanalysis can be for solving their daily clinical problems. Provide a “transitional supervisory space” from the start and encourage the trainees to present their cases with all affects and conflicts. Don’t devaluate the common psychiatric forms of treatment – and don’t introduce psychoanalysis as a (superior) alternative! Rather connect your psychoanalytic approach with the usual psychiatric procedures! Be – on the other hand - explicit in stating that you are convinced that psychoanalysis should not confine itself to the psychoanalytic cure proper but is very useful for application in psychiatry. Let the residents have an idea about your therapeutic practice – show them videos, let them be present when you interview patients. Be careful in choosing your didactical approach; be modern, use modern media; let them participate actively! Be credible by allowing psychoanalytic reasoning into all levels of the institution, including organizational matters. Don’t relegate psychodynamics to a small and well fenced-off area but let it be an important factor throughout the entire organization. Try to find psychoanalysts who are ready to serve as senior psychiatrists, consultants, clinical directors –this is the most difficult thing to do, in my experience: there are still not enough psychoanalysts ready to devote themselves to psychiatric care. But you’ll never be able to establish psychoanalysis alone, you need a team!