MISSION STATEMENT

The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), a non-profit incorporated in 2006, develops and promotes mental health services in China: trains Chinese mental health professionals as psychodynamic psychotherapists and provides them with psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic treatment.

WHAT WE DO

CAPA members treat, train and supervise mental health professionals in ten Chinese cities. Our first two-year   psychodynamic psychotherapy class graduated in October 2010. Currently, there are four first year classes, four second year classes (each with 10-14 students), and an intermediate program. The two- year advanced training program has begun (September 2011). 53 people receive 3-5 session/week psychoanalysis and 54 receive psychotherapy. More than 2,000 volunteers and mental health professionals were trained under CAPA auspices following the Sichuan Earthquake.  In 2009 and 2010, more than twenty analysts and analytic therapists visited China, where they toured, taught, supervised, and treated their patients. Another such group will visit in October 2011.

WHO WE ARE

        At present, there are more than two hundred eighty dues-paying members, predominantly American (but also Australian, Canadian, South American, European, and Israeli). Three hundred other people subscribe to our Information List.  Most members are analysts, members of APsaA, Freudian Society, IPA, William Alanson White and other analytic organizations. Some members are analytically oriented psychotherapists. There are more than 140 Chinese dues paying members.