The Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE) was formed in May 1975. Led by M. Robert Gardner, MD, a small group of senior psychoanalysts crafted an educational program designed to teach psychoanalysis in a “workshop” atmosphere, tailoring teaching to both the special talents of faculty and the individual needs of candidates, in an administratively lean “institute without walls.” The fostering of intensive relationships was seen as essential to educational success and psychoanalytic excellence. Attracted by the talents, vision, and charismatic passion of PINE’s founders, several younger psychoanalysts joined as faculty. For the first decade or so, as planned, PINE educated small candidate groups. Virtually all activities were conducted in members’ homes or offices, a congenial practice that continues to the present time. Over time, the educational success of this original format produced its own challenging opportunities for the growth and development of PINE. The steady increase of numbers through graduation, a blossoming of new faculty from within and without, and the cataclysmic evolution of psychoanalytic culture and climate, dialectically fashioned new activities and structures. PINE’s opening of psychoanalytic training doors to a diverse group of mental health professionals deepened access to key avenues of knowledge. The creation of the Psychoanalytic Society of New England, East addressed a number of evolving needs, particularly those of continuing psychoanalytic education. However, PINE also broadened its mandate through a range of consultative and educational activities in the wider mental health community. In addition, PINE’s members now hold significant positions in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and state government. All the while, each generation of PINE has provided outstanding contributors to psychoanalytic literature as well as national and international psychoanalytic organizations. Despite a burgeoning growth, PINE’s core stance on psychoanalytic education remains intact based on a personal psychoanalysis, psychoanalyzing with supervision, and exposure to a course curriculum mirroring historical and contemporary psychoanalysis. PINE’s spiritual intent remains a “workshop” atmosphere of small candidate groups with the fostering of intensive relationships as the conduit for learning and the shaping of a psychoanalyst who is strikingly individual while clearly part of evolving psychoanalysis.