The Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection: A set of complete and recorded psychoanalyses as a research resource

From a set of seventeen complete and tape-recorded psychoanalyses, a sample of findings is presented: (a) the level of agreement of two clinical judge s on the psychological health of these patients is adequate for the late se ssions, but not for the early sessions; (b) the amount of change during psy choanalysis appears to be similar to that in the Menninger Foundation Psych otherapy Research Project; (c) psychiatric severity measures from the early sessions can yield a significant level of prediction of the later benefits from psychoanalysis. Finally, further research uses of this collection of psychoanalyses are suggested.