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Based on unpublished archival material (Eitingon's yearly reports, account statements), this paper enriches and modifies the hitherto commonly accepted image of the Berlin Polyclinic. It highlights the fact that the indigent patients treated there contributed considerably to the budget by paying fees, albeit relatively low ones. While confirming that Eitingon largely funded the clinic, it also points out (what has hardly been known before) that he reduced his support in 1928 and stopped it altogether in 1931. Among other things, candidates were now required to pay some rent for the rooms where they analyzed their training cases. On the other hand, candidates could get stipends, funded by the course fees of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Besides a number of employed assistants, candidates did most of the treatments while the members of the psychoanalytic Society had to be repeatedly reminded of their formal obligation to take over one unpaid case from the Polyclinic. At the end, the paper discusses the "spirit" of the institution.