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Josh Krieger, A CAPA member recently completed his dissertation on China’s first national psychotherapy TV program and its portrayals of family therapy. This web page http://www.joshkrieger.com/lw (Copy and paste it into your browser) contains a summary and a couple of
episodes of the show (subtitled In English). There is also a link to the actual dissertation. He would welcome your comments.
elise

Dear Colleagues

I have just returned from the 2nd Chinese Psychoanalytic Congress in Shanghai. The theme of the Congress, (organized by Zeping Xiao, the director of the Shanghai MHC) was “Psychoanalysis in the Modernizing Society” About 500 people attended. At a big panel on the first night “IPA and China—Where is China on the Map of the IPA?” Dan Jacobs mentioned that in his opinion what was needed for psychotherapy training was weekly classes, which warmed the cockles of my heart. The papers at the conference were varied, representing a number of schools of psychoanalysis
During the conference many people introduced themselves to me and thanked me for what CAPA is doing. We are very very well known and liked. There was much hugging and kissing. I was bowled over.
Major subthemes of the conference —not always explicit–were
1. The Chinese conviction that diversity is a good thing,
2. The Chinese belief that ultimately they will develop their own kind of psychoanalysis,
3. The Chinese concern that some Westerners condescend to them
My paper went well. If you would like to read it ( “Psychoanalysis and Globalization”) please click
http://www.capachina.org/psychoanalysis and globalization.doc

I talked at length with various professors, students in the IPA psychoanalytic program as well as with our own students. Some of what they said:

1. Re: students wanting certificates: They suggested that CAPA find an American university to cooperate with CAPA and a major Chinese University. Such an affiliation could get Chinese government support. The Chinese university would send students to America for a year or so (which the American university would like). CAPA would provide the psychotherapy part of a master’s degree in psychology program. The students would receive their degree from the Chinese university. It would not be important in China which American university.

2. Could a CAPA analyst could come and live in Beijing or Shanghai for 3-12 months (or even several years)—all accommodations etc provided. The Chinese would get support for this endeavor, which might be of interest to a retired analyst or to a young analyst.

3. I discussed with several Americans the possibility that candidates might use a Chinese Skype case for a third case. Since graduation is the concern of institutes and not BOPS, this possibility would benefit the 20 or so Chinese mental health professionals on our waiting list for analysis and also American candidates who have long waits for an appropriate case. (There are now 40 people in China in analysis with American analysts)

4. A few CAPA students have begun private practice and others are about to begin. They will form a group to help and advise each other. In Beijing, several of them may rent an office together and will probably invite CAPA to have its Chinese office there.

5. One of our volunteers, Katie Colton, our intern, is fluent in Chinese. She taught English as a second language in Beijing. Often, otherwise excellent applicants for the training program have poor English. Usually they are advised about ways to improve their English and then are re-interviewed before they begin classes. Katie will organize a weekly English class for these students on Skype. (We are rapidly becoming an All purpose university)

6. Cesar Alfonso, when he returns from the China tour, will organize an online auction for us.

7. In Freud and the Far East Ed. Salman Akhtar, Aronson 2009, there is a chapter on China by Douglas Kirsner and Elise Snyder

Just some general notes—5 years ago people in China were talking about the trauma of the Great Leap Forward and the Japanese invasion. They said that it would be five years before they would talk openly about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. Well 5 years have passed, books and papers are being written about the Cultural Revolution, and everyone speaks about it very openly.

elise

Just when we thought all systems were go, we find that we have a problem. We desperately need some one to teach a first year continuous case conference via Skype

You would be teaching on Tuesday evening
9/15,9/22,9/29,10/20,10/27 8:15-9:30 PM East DST (Eastern)
11/3,11/10,11/17,12/1,12/8 5:45-7:00 PM East Standard Time
12/15,1/5,1/19,1/26,2/2, 8:30-9:45 PM East Standard Time

Some alterations in the times are possible.

Please contact me

Warm regards

elise

There is lots of good news.

NEW FIRST YEAR CLASS: We have just accepted our new first year class; about 50 excellent people all of whom have had two interviews. Our reputation is growing rapidly. We have had applicants from many cities where we will not be able to have a class because there were not enough people (10-12) to have one. BUT, we are going to experiment with another audio-visual technology that—unlike Skype—may enable us to have one set of teachers teaching in several cities simultaneously.

SAN FRANCISCO MEETING OF THE ACADEMY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: went very well with presentations about CAPA itself and also a focus on our work during the Earthquake (Participants: Cesar Alfonso, Allen Dyer, Ken Lee, Ubaldo Leli, Elise Snyder, Jeff Taxman). An edited version of the panel will appear on our Website.

IPA MEETING IN CHICAGO (July 27-August 1): We are trying to arrange a social event for CAPA members and those interested in working with CAPA. So, if you will be in Chicago, please send your name and when you will be there to our wonderful volunteer Sean Hsuan-Yi Lin
seanyilin@gmail.com

CHINA TOUR: October 16-November 1, 2009: those of you who attended the dim sum lunch in NYC at the APsaA meetings in January saw the brochure. We have 28 people who are going and a list of people who want to go next year. It is a wonderful. Remarkably inexpensive and should be mainly deductible. Contact elise.snyder@yale.edu

INSTRUCTORS: Of 72 teaching slots we have filled all but 6. We need the following teachers: (Teach on Skype, 10 classes per course, one hour and fifteen minutes per class, reading lists available with PDFs, and a $500 honorarium for each course)

Year 1, Theory 3 (Later Development Oedipus to Senility) Tuesday Evenings Spring
Year 2, Technique 1 (Resistance, defense regression etc) Thursday Mornings Fall
Continuous Case Seminars 15 sessions Spring & Fall Tuesday evenings

AS usual, we have long waiting lists for analysis and for psychotherapy.

MEMBERSHIP: We now have 213 members. If you have not sent in your dues, please do so. We need all the help we can get. Dues are $30/year.
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And follow directions
With very warm regards

elise

CAPA, the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, (http://www.capachina.org/) is completing the first year of its Two Year Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. There are 57 students in classes at 6 sites in China. We are inundated with applicants for the incoming first year class.

The program runs for 30 weeks each year divided into three trimesters
No more than 10-12 people in a class
Each course is 10 weeks long
1 and 1/4 hours a week theory class
1 and 1/4 hours a week technique class
1 and 1/4 hours a week continuous case conference
1 hour a week individual supervision
All students receive PEP WEB.
All of this is done using Skype, free, secure and easy to use.
There are model reading lists for each course, but of course, instructors can tweak them to suit.

We are recruiting instructors and supervisors.
In exchange for your participation, we promise you interested and dedicated students (some have been getting up at 4:30 in the morning to attend classes) and an amazing adventure. That’s a pretty good offer these days.

Please contact me for more details.

Elise Snyder elise.snyder@yale.edu

Dear Colleagues

CAPA, the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance is now recruiting teachers for the second year of our Two-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (our program is similar to programs taught at psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies and departments of psychiatry). Our first year (57 students at 6 sites) has gone very well. The students have “good-enough” English and are eager to learn. Our (almost 50) instructors have enjoyed the work immensely.

Training Program.
There are 3 trimesters.
There is a theory and a technique class in each trimester
Each class is one hour fifteen minutes long
Each course has 10 classes.
The students at each site are together in a classroom.
Everything is done on Skype. (more…)

You are cordially invited to attend Discussion Group 99

Psychoanalysis and China

Thursday January 15, 7:30-10:00 PM

Learn about what is happening in China with regard to psychoanalysis
Discuss cultural differences between Chinese and Americans
Find out what almost 200 of your colleagues are doing in China
Teaching, treating, supervising
See how you can participate

All are welcome
Elise Snyder

The article by Dune Lawrence is being widely read in China. I am traveling in China now, teaching, supervising and consulting. I have thus far had consultations with 6 Chinese mental health professionals with good English who will be the kind of analytic patients most of us would give our eye teeth for—even our molars. Please volunteer and join the more than 175 APsaA, IPA, and Division 39 analysts and treat one of them via Skype. Contact me at
elise.snyder@yale.edu

Elise–in Wuhan

Lest anyone be disturbed by the article about Skype in today’s NY Times. We have known since we began that Skype text messages are not secure. Nor for that matter are Skype
computer-to-telephone communications).

We advise our Chinese colleagues NOT to use Skype text messages (Chat function). Our Chinese colleagues are often amused by our worries. As far as we can tell the issue is whether or not someone is a “person of interest”.

We are assured by our security people that Skype computer -to computer communications are secure.

For those of you who are interested, I have a little piece called “Life in an Insecure World” that you might want to read.

Elise

The big news from CAPA is that all 6 Two-year Psychotherapy Training Programs have begun. We are training 56 people (the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute is training 10 of them). We may be the largest psychoanalytic psychotherapy-training program in the world.
Who woulda thunk it???
And we now have a waiting list of more than15 people who want to begin the training in September 2009 as well as our usual waiting lists of people who want analyses and psychotherapies.
And we need YOU
To treat
To supervise
To teach
To join our committees
To visit China on tours we are planning
Please email me for more information and please pass this email along to your colleagues.

elise

With pleasure and pride CAPA announces the birth this week of sextuplets:

6 Two-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Programs.

Delivered by: CAPA five, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute one.

Place of Birth: CHINA.

Statistics: Each program is 30 weeks long, conducted via Skype, and consists of
1 hour 15 minutes/week theory class
1 hour 15 minutes/week technique class
1 hour 15 minutes/week continuous case seminar
1 hour of individual supervision/week
3-7 days face-to-face training a year

Each class has 10 students. People are already on the waiting list for next year.

In addition, there are now 26 people in analysis, 11 in psychotherapy and another 29 (not part of the Two-year program) in supervision. There are waiting lists in all modalities

The proud parents of these endeavors are the almost 150 CAPA members.
Please join us. It takes an analytic horde to train a country.

Elise Snyder, Midwife

CAPA (China American Psychoanalytic Alliance) is coming down to the wire. We have filled 52 of 55 teaching positions in our Two-Year Psychotherapy Training Programs in 5 Chinese venues. These three positions remain to be filled. Everyone who has done this work has enjoyed it immensely. Please contact me. Play a role in the Psychoanalytic Olympics,

1. Development 5 Sessions: Tuesday nights: 3/10,3/17,3/24,3/31,4/21
East Coast Time: 9:45-11:00 PM
Central Time: 8:45-10:00 PM
Mountain Time 7:45- 9:00 PM
West Coast Time 6:45-8:00 PM
Topics: Oedipal and Latency periods

2. Assessment 5 sessions: Tuesday nights: 2/3,2/10,2/17,2/24,3/3
East Coast Time: 8:15-9:30 PM
Central Time: 7:15-8:30 PM
Mountain Time 6:15-7:30 PM
West Coast Time 5:15-6:30 PM
Topics: Taking a history, Helping patient tell his story, Evaluating ego functions,
Selecting patients for exploratory psychotherapy, Supportive psychotherapy, Couples therapy, Marital therapy

3. Early Development 10 sessions: Tuesday nights: 12/9,12/16,1/6,1/13, 1/20,
2/3,2/10,2/17,2/24,3/3
East Coast Time: 10:10-11:25 PM
Central Time: 9:10-10:25 PM
Mountain Time 8:10-9:25 PM
West Coast Time 7:10-8:25 PM
Topics: Inborn capacities & environmental influences, The importance of mothers & fathers, The development of psychic structure, Early object relations, Infancy & early childhood, Toddlerhood

Please contact me elise.snyder@yale.edu

并颂夏安
wish you a tranquil summer day

Elise

Despite many many responses, we still need supervisors for some of the 42 Chinese mental health professionals taking one of our five Two Year Psychotherapy Training Programs.

Supervision is for 45 minutes a week at your convenience on Skype.

We also have a few teaching slots still open. Classes are 1 hour and 15 minutes long, Tuesday evenings, on Skype, from your home or office (even Starbucks). The students range from third year residents to professors with more publications than most of us dream of.

1. Basic Concepts 10 sessions
9/2,9/9,9/16,9/23,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18,12/2

2. Early Development 10 sessions
12/9,12/16,1/6,1/13,1/20,2/3,2/10,2/17,2/24,3/3

3. Later Development 10 sessions
3/10,3/17,3/24,3/31,4/21,4/28,5/5,5/12,5/19,5/26

4. Beginning Treatment and Practical Arrangements 10 sessions
9/2,9/9,9/16,9/23,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18,12/2

7. Continuous Case Seminar Fall Semester
9/2,9/9,9/16,9/23,10/21,10/28,11/4,11/11,11/18,12/2, 12/9,12/16,1/6,1/13,1/20

Everyone who has participated has found work in china both fascinating and rewarding. for more information, please contact me

Elise Snyder elise.snyder@yale.edu

Dear Colleagues

It begins to appear that all 1.3 billion Chinese want analysis, psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and psychotherapy training. There has been an upsurge of requests for all of these, probably as a result of
1. The earthquake
2. CAPA’s work for the earthquake survivors which received a lot of publicity in the Chinese media
3. The Chinese government’s campaign for more psychotherapy and psychotherapists.

For example, one medical school and one major teaching hospital just contacted us for psychotherapy training programs. This coming year there will be six Two Year Psychotherapy Training Programs (one run by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and five run by CAPA itself) in China. All of the teaching is done on Skype computer-to-computer protocols.

We need instructors to staff these five programs and analysts, therapists and supervisors for the Chinese mental health professionals who are flooding us with applications.

Please volunteer. It is an extraordinary experience. CAPA NEEDS YOU

Warm regards

Elise Snyder

Chengdu: A kaleidoscope of events

I had dinner last night with a friend, a psychiatrist getting his PhD, (his doctoral dissertation is on PTSD with a series of 3000 prisoners). He is back here to work in the Disaster region. He had come in in the first days after the earthquake with the Army at the request of the government. He had asked a colleague of his to join us, (himself, myself and an American analyst disaster expert, Jeff Taxman). The friend arrived and we went through the lovely Chinese custom of handing each other our cards with both hands, receiving them with both hands and reading them carefully. I looked at his. “0ooh, you are Jie”—some one I had never met but had been emailing back and forth for a couple of years. He grinned at my shock.

He had especially wanted to see me. He was starting a two-year training program at a University in the Disaster region (In China today the number of universities grows every minute. My friends here, mainly academics, have to call to find out where universities are in their own city that they have never heard of, universities with 10-20,000 students.) His training program (masters degree) will teach all modalities of psychotherapy. There will be no tuition. The students will come from the Disaster area and will sign a contract to return to their villages and towns to work for 5 years. Out comes his laptop amid all of our cell phones, Blackberries, platters of food. He showed me his curriculum and suggested we collaborate. Could CAPA teach the psychodynamic courses? One of the courses is called something like the Importance of English for learning and doing psychotherapy. He will have them read one paper in English a week. Jie has PEPWEB.

A few days ago I visited the Department of Psychiatry at the Sichuan University Medical School. I have tried for a number of years to make contact with them. They have not been interested. This invitation was arranged by a member of our local CAPA group, a woman in treatment and supervision with CAPA, not a mental health professional. She works for a corporation that has given her time off to work in the Disaster region where she goes almost every day with a team from the medical school. She has been teaching them about what to do with children. She convinced the department of psychiatry to see me. On our way there she warned me not to talk about psychoanalysis, to talk only about the Mercy Corps Children’s workbook (Gil Kliman’s) and about the Disaster trainer that CAPA had brought to town. Both psychiatrists spoke excellent English. They listened to my spiel somewhat impatiently and said, yes yes we want both the child trainings and the general disaster training, but we hear that you have a two-year training course in psychotherapy. Tell us about it. I did—“Don’t you have a brochure? No but I will send you a description of the curriculum (Linn Campbell’s and others’ work). We definitely would like if you can arrange that for us here. We know nothing about psychotherapy we want it for our younger faculty and residents. We will need it even more now after the earthquake. The tuition is high ($3000/student/year) I told them that we are trying to raise scholarship money. They grinned and said Maybe something good will come from the Earthquake. You will be able to convince people to donate scholarship money for us poor suffering people in Sichuan. We laughed and shook hands. They were my kind of people.

This last weekend there were many two and three day Disaster training sessions, I had a part in arranging three of them. One was sponsored by the Young Communist League in cooperation with EAP, a private company where I had given lectures in previous years. The other was arranged by members of the local CAPA group. A Buddhist businessman friend of one of them had paid Jeff’s fare. There were two hundred Buddhists at that one, many of them monks in their robes, from Sichuan and other provinces. Is this your picture of Chins? An American, working with a private Chinese company, invited by the Young Communist League? A Buddhis businessman, paying the airfare of an American psychoanalyst and robed Buddhist monks receiving Disaster training from him?

The Chinese government has thrown a huge amount of manpower, supplies etc into the Disaster area. Every one is now sheltered, in tents and other places, those without cooking facilities are being fed, there is clean water, there are no epidemics, and schools are reopening in tents and other temporary buildings. Every American I have met here asks-“Why couldn’t we have done that in New Orleans?” The government has, for about 4-6 years been aware of the need for more mental health professionals and has opened schools of counseling, sent psychologists abroad to study best practices, etc. In their usual way they will now probably try to open many many schools of psychotherapy. The problem as my Chinese colleagues are aware is that they do not have the clinical teachers for these schools. I believe that the Sino-German group, which has been teaching psychoanalysis in China for 15-20 years, has funding from the Volkswagen Foundation. I think that the Norwegian and Swedish analysts also receive some support from foundations or their governments. I do not know for sure. CAPA runs on the $25/year dues of its members and on all the analysts and psychotherapists who are paid the munificent fee of $4-$8/session (many of them donate their fees to CAPA), who come to China paying their own way to teach supervise, and work with their patients in person. I want to thank them for having made all this possible

As I was walking down the street with a Chinese colleague, she ran into two friends on the street She introduced us and the women thanked me “Who were they?” “Counselors at XYZ University. They had heard about you.” (China is a very very small place—at least the mental health community). She said that they ran the local hotline. The Youth Hotline was started about 25 years ago by a journalist. It now has hundreds of volunteers all over China some of whom are mental health people, others they train. I lectured there three years ago and have become friendly with one of their volunteers an English professor in Beijing sShe is Chinese) with a counseling degree. She and her graduate students have worked on the translation of Gil Kliman’s children’s’ workbook. In a few days, she is going to Boston where her parents live—(I don’t know why they are there) and she and I plan to meet midway between Boston and New York for lunch.

When the women on the street thanked me, I said, as I have learned to do in China, “It is my pleasure.” And indeed it is. My work here, both with CAPA and with the Earthquake Relief, has been an extraordinary opportunity: to become a small part of a world I did not know, to meet wonderful people, to do something very very useful here in China and, I had hoped, for psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts in America. I will light a candle to Saint Rita. Ubaldo Leli, the Vice President of CAPA tells me she is the saint of lost causes.