ABSTRACT
Interest in psychoanalysis and in practising psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy has a long and a short history in China. Psychoanalysis was then given considerably more attention in the cultural life of China, and the works of Sigmund Freud and of other psychoanalysts were again printed and even new translations published. The two-year programmes have attracted considerable interest and have benefited from the work done, especially by the German analysts, in China over the last 20 years. In 2007, during the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Congress in Berlin, the first formal connection with the IPA was established with the formation of the IPA China Allied Centre, whose members are also members of the Psychoanalytic Association of China. In sum, the strength and vitality of current psychoanalytic activity in China is a testament to the nearly three decades of psychodynamic teaching, training, and clinical work carried out by many IPA and other psychoanalysts.
