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 eighteen Chinese cities on Skype and ooVoo. Currently, there are four first year classes, four second year classes (each with 10-14 students), and two classes in each of the third and fourth year Advanced Training Programs (each with 10 students).  Our first two-year Basic psychodynamic psychotherapy class graduated in October 2010.  Fifty-three students receive 3-5 sessions/week psychoanalysis. Fifty-four receive psychotherapy. More than 2,000 volunteers and mental health professionals were trained under CAPA auspices following the Sichuan Earthquake.  Since 2009, more than twenty analysts and analytic therapists visit China for three weeks, touring, lecturing, supervising, and treating.

WHO WE ARE

There are more than four hundred dues-paying members, predominantly American (but also Australian, Canadian, South and Central American, European, and Israeli). Three hundred people subscribe to our Friends 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 170 Chinese Associate members. When the first Advanced Training Class graduates in June 2013, they will be invited to become full CAPA members.