The   Melbourne   Study   of   Psychoanalytic   Psychother-apy  examined  the  implementation,  lived  experience,  and  perceived  therapeutic  gains  of  psychoanalytic  psychother-apy in a low-cost, private-sector community clinic. A first in Australia, this 8-year demonstration project allowed natural-istic study of the impact and process of intensive, long-term, time-limited   psychoanalytic   psychotherapy   delivered   to   self-referred adults by clinicians with a common theoretical frame  of  practice.  Presented  in  three  papers,  the  research  employed  the  RE-AIM  planning  and  evaluation  framework,  using complementary quantitative and qualitative methods, to study the psychotherapy service in terms of Reach, Effec-tiveness,  Adoption,  Implementation  and  Maintenance.  This  first paper reports the Reach of the program to be 67% for those presenting for assessment for psychoanalytic psycho-therapy, with Adoption of the full 2-year treatment program being 60%. Improvements in mental health and life function-ing provided quantitative evidence of Effectiveness for those completing the 2-year treatment program, with Maintenanceat  8-month  follow-up.  Patient  age,  gender  and  personality.