ABSTRACT

Interest in psychoanalysis and in practicing psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy in China has both an older and a more recent history. Psychoanalysis was given considerable attention in the cultural life of China, and the works of Sigmund Freud and other psychoanalysts were printed again, and even new translations were published. The basic idea in both the Norwegian programme and the German programme in Shanghai has been to educate future Chinese psychotherapy teachers, that is, a “train-the- trainers” programme. Beginning in 2008, the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA), under the leadership of Elise Snyder, began a new training initiative. CAPA has organised two-year programmes with seminars, supervision, and psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. The long-term strategy of the German programmes since their beginning in the 1990s was to educate a core group of Chinese colleagues in basic psychodynamic psychotherapeutic principles.