ABSTRACT
The China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) has provided treatment, training, and supervision to Chinese mental health professionals over the Internet. This chapter describes the project, its scope and activities, and the experiences of CAPA teachers and clinicians in exploring and developing the usefulness and power of this very new teaching and treating medium. It addresses the lack of Chinese analysts and mentors has created an intense demand for psychodynamic psychotherapy training and treatment, which CAPA. Some characteristics of the virtual treatment situation may result in vicissitudes in the quality of connection and attention in the analytic relationship. Skype© technology has been instrumental in bringing psychoanalytic treatment, supervision, and teaching to China. CAPA has been providing, via Skype©, low cost psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psycho-therapy to Chinese mental health professionals involved in the CAPA training programmes. CAPA’s curriculum is typical of a psychotherapy-training programme: with sections on theory, technique, and continuous case conferences, given in parallel.
