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This paper focuses on the process of psychoanalysis becoming a psychotherapeutic method and a profession. It covers the period between the 1890s and the founding of the first training institute. This period is roughly divided into six phases: (1) Freud’s first two pupils; (2) Freud’s demonstration of his method on other colleagues, showing that treatment and instruction were virtually indistinguishable; (3) the foundation of a private study and discussion group, without much impact on larger circles; (4) the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich becoming the main recruiting center for the emerging psychoanalytic movement; (5) in the early 1910s when a handful of psychoanalysts sought to have a firsthand experience of the method; and (6) the founding of the Berlin Institute in 1920, introducing the tripartite training system that prevails to this day.