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), an intermediate program and a two- year advanced training program (began September 2011). Fifty-three people receive 3-5 session/week psychoanalysis. Fifty-four receive psycho- therapy. More than 2,000 volunteers and mental health professionals were trained under CAPA auspices following the Sichuan Earthquake.  In 2009, 2010 and 2011, more than twenty analysts and analytic therapists visited China, where they toured, taught, supervised, and treated their patients. A similar group will visit each year.

WHO WE ARE

       There are three hundred fifty 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 170 Chinese dues-paying members.