Is psychoanalytic education effective?: comment on Damsa et al. (2010)

While a growing body of empirical data attests increasingly to the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment, what data do we have that attests to the effectiveness of psychoanalytic education? In this comment on Damsa et al. (2010), I briefly address that question and suggest that-if we are to truly generate passionate interest in psychoanalysis among psychiatric residents and other mental health professionals in training-perhaps we need to begin by researching the largely unresearched process of psychoanalytic education and supervision.