MISSION STATEMENT

The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), a non-profit organization, develops and promotes mental health services in China by training Chinese mental health professionals as psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychotherapists and providing them with psychoanalytic treatment.

WHAT WE DO

The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) was incorporated as a non-profit in 2006. CAPA members treat patients and supervise mental health professionals in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xi’an. Six two-year psychoanalytic psychotherapy-training programs began in September 2008. In September 2009, these students entered the second year of their training and fifty new students began their first year. More than 100 people have applied the September 2010 class. Currently 44 people are in 3-5 session/week psychoanalysis and another 15 are receiving psychotherapy. More than 2,000 volunteers and mental health professionals were trained under CAPA auspices following the Sichuan Earthquake.  Training and supervision continues in Sichuan. In October 2009, twenty analysts and analytic therapists (under the auspices of CAPA and the Academy of Psychoanalysis) visited China, where they taught, supervised, and treated their patients. Two or three such tours are planned for 2010-2011.

CAPA hopes to train the leaders of tomorrow

who will be the teachers of the next generation of psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

                                                            WHO WE ARE

At present, there are more than two hundred dues-paying members, predominantly Americans (but also Australians, Canadians, South Americans, Europeans, and Israelis). Three hundred other people are subscribed to our Information List. All are people interested in psychoanalysis in China and most are actively engaged in providing services to people in China.  Most of our members are analysts, members of APsaA, the Freudian Society, IPA, William Alanson White and other analytic organizations. Some members are analytically oriented psychotherapists. There are mote than 140 Chinese dues paying members,