NEWS AND UPDATE FROM THE IPA CHINA COMMITTEE
The IPA China Committee’s second IPA Psychoanalytic Training Program in China will commence in Shanghai in June 2011. The International New Groups Committee and the IPA Board have appointed Hermann Schultz of the DPV an Interim Training Analyst for China. Meanwhile the first Chinese IPA Psychoanalytic Training Program in Beijing is now in its third year with Irmgard Dettbarn of the DPV as Training Analyst.
The China Committee is sponsoring a panel at the Mexico IPA Congress on: “Psychoanalysis in China: A Cross-Cultural Adventure” on Wednesday 3rd August, 2:30 to 4:30 pm. Presenters will be: Prof. Qiu Jianyin (Shanghai), Prof. Yang Yunping (Beijing), Prof. Qijia Shi (Wuhan), Alf Gerlach (Saarbrucken), Sverre Varvin (Oslo), Peter Loewenberg (Los Angeles), Chair.
The China Committee is also developing an outreach programme in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan in order to give continuity to the public face of psychoanalysis and of the IPA after the successful IPAASIA Centenary Conference in Beijing in October 2010. To this end, we are setting up a website, a project of the China Committee in conjunction with the IPA Allied Centre and with China Open University and organizing a series of Introductory Lectures in Beijing. The lectures will be articulated in order to reach mental health professionals, university students and the general public. This year Peter Loewenberg, Chair of the China Committee will give the first lecture at Peking University on the topic: “American Exceptionalism – Hubris and the Mission of Democracy”. Sverre Varvin, Tomas Plänkers and Irmgard Dettbarn will give lectures in ensuing programs. In 2011 we are planning a series of lectures on Applied Psychoanalysis ( psychoanalysis in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and trauma, psychoanalysis and disaster, analytic work in institutions, hospital, schools, nurseries etc. ) The lectures will be given by IPA analysts and Chinese professionals and will focus on issues relevant to the Chinese context.
Peter Loewenberg